Michael Ross
Professor
Department of Political Science and International Institute
3375 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus Mailcode: 147203
(310) 267-5409
mlross@polisci.ucla.edu
Education
Princeton, 1997
Area of Interest
Comparative Politics
Michael L. Ross is a Professor of Political Science at University of California Los Angeles. He has published widely on energy politics, fossil fuel subsidies, the political and economic problems of resource-rich countries, civil war, democracy, and gender rights. Ross’s most recent book, The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2012) was named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice magazine and has been translated into Russian, Arabic, and Portuguese, with a Japanese translation forthcoming.
Ross currently serves on the advisory board of the Natural Resources Governance Institute and is a member of the Political Instability Task Force, the Multi Stakeholder Group of the US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Group on “Good Governance of Extractive and Land Resources.”
