Patrick Gaule

Economist interested in talent, science and innovation. Associate Professor at the Univ. of Bristol. Cofounder, Global Talent Fund

[Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 @RuchirAgar]

Congrats to 2026 Fields medalists Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman!

Three won Olympiad gold as teens: Deng and Tsimerman at IMO; Pardon at IOI.

In Invisible Geniuses, @patrickgaule and I found a similar rate: 14 of 26 in 1994–2018 were former IMO medalists.

[Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 @RuchirAgar]

Talent economics is an exciting and growing field. Join us in Rome to present new research, exchange ideas, and help build the field.

We’re delighted to have @johnvanreenen and @prithwic as keynotes.

Organized with @patrickgaule from @GlobTalent and @gaiagdossi from @EIEF_Rome.

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

Also featuring a PhD workshop introducing early-career researchers to the field’s central questions, data sources, and empirical approaches.

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

Join us in Rome to present, discuss, or listen to, frontier research on the economics of talent! @RuchirAgar @gaiagdossi

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

🚨Call for papers🚨: Talent Economics Conference

@GlobTalent and @EIEF_Rome invite submissions for the Talent Economics Conference.

#Rome 🇮🇹
📍22–23 October 2026

The conference will focus on three questions:
• How does exceptional STEM talent develop?
• How can high-potential young people be identified earlier and more reliably?
• How do exceptional individuals shape scientific discovery, productivity, and growth?

No registration fee.

Submissions are due by 23:59 CEST on 30 July 2026.

Full submission details and conference information:
https://t.co/jA7LQ6HNxk

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

We are deeply appreciative of this extraordinary commitment from @XTXmarkets.
At GTF, we’re working to help exceptional young talent worldwide reach its full potential.
@globtalent @RuchirAgar

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/2 Announcing: A $40M commitment from @xtxmarkets to @GlobTalent

Many exceptionally gifted young mathematicians and scientists never get the chance to develop their talents. We are working to change that. GTF and XTX co-founded BIG Talent Scholars in 2023. With this new commitment, we will bring 150 more scholars to the world's top universities.

[Davide Coluccia @dm_coluccia]

🌍 Development (5–6 May): M. Mobarak (Yale), K. Orkin (Oxford), I. Rasul (UCL), P. Rossi (CREST)

👥 Migration (6–7 May): R. Abramitzky (Stanford), J. Monras (UPF), C. Theoharides (Amherst)

⚖️ Fairness (8 May): E. Fehr (Zurich), R. Bénabou (Princeton), I. Almås (Zurich)

[Davide Coluccia @dm_coluccia]

Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM) is back for its 3rd edition!

🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol

Three workshops: Development, Migration, and Fairness.

Submit your paper by Jan 31. Info: https://t.co/9scOTwx3GB

[tom cunningham @testingham]

I wrote a long blot post on the economics of AI, prompted by two great workshops (Windfall and NBER), and me leaving OpenAI for METR:

TLDR: we driving in the fog.

1. There is no standard model of AI’s economic impact. Economists have been using a wide range of assumptions to model AI’s impact, there is no standard framework. There seems to me an opportunity for ambitious economists to propose deep models of AI’s impact. A promising line would concentrate on AI’s ability to find low-dimensional representations of the world.

[Ruchir Agarwal 🌍 @RuchirAgar]

How to spot a genius? Insightful coverage of @globtalent's work on the importance of exceptional human talent and how to support it--great working with @TheEconomist's @asdomash.

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

The 20th End-Of-Year Conference of Swiss Economists Abroad takes place in Bern on December 19. Submit your paper here https://t.co/BvAYLlGzXi by September 30th.

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

Global Talent Fund Co-Founder @patrick_gaule joins our partners at @BristolUni to share our mission: to discover, nurture, & support talented youth worldwide. Hear what BIG Scholar Dulguun Gansukh from Mongolia says about her journey.

#EconomicsOfTalent

https://t.co/GxCzIVikwA

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

Excited to share this video from @BristolUni. I spoke about our work at @GlobTalent to support young talent worldwide and advance the knowledge frontier. Thank you to BIG Scholar Dulguun, for sharing her story. https://t.co/QKMeDhDeJM via @YouTube

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/6 🧵

Schools always work hard to support students who struggle. But what about talented students who find class too slow? Without challenge, talented students risk disengagement. 🥱

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/3 🧵

🤔How does GTF define talent?

The capacity to solve novel problems efficiently in a person’s late teenage years.

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/3 🧵

Volodymyr Chub 🇺🇦sees each math problem as a “little journey.”

He earned a 🥉at IMO 2023, and is now a BIG Scholar studying Mathematics at @JesusCollegeCam.

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/4🧵

Vlad-Titus Spataru, a BIG scholar from 🇷🇴 Romania, is a two-time silver 🥈 medalist at the IMO, and had his research published in the PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research before starting to study Mathematics at @Trinity_College, @Cambridge_Uni

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

Insightful look at the Economics of Talent from @bbcmundo’s @ceciliabarria1 featuring the work of @GlobTalent & BIG Scholars Bilhana & Manuel. Summary 🧵& links to the article here

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/5🧵

🚨Big moment for the Economics of Talent 🚨

The BBC’s @bbcmundo asked us: What is the Economics of Talent? How can we open doors for exceptional young minds in the developing world?

Here’s what we shared (and what it has to do with Messi ⚽) ⬇️

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/2 We're proud to share our inaugural class of BIG Scholars with the world! They are amazing - see their profile interviews and bios here: https://t.co/kHBql5Qt14

[Global Talent Fund @GlobTalent]

1/4 What is the Economics of Talent❓ Our co-founders @RuchirAgar + @patrick_gaule explain in the new Finance & Development magazine cover story. Learn how EoT is illuminating ways to identify, nurture, and empower talented individuals to spur innovation.

[Patrick Gaule @patrick_gaule]

The 19th Swiss Economics Abroad annual meeting will take place in Luzern on December 20th. See the call for papers at https://t.co/uNYO0bOlI2. cc @enrico_berkes @AlineButikofer