Patrick Conway is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been on the faculy of UNC since 1983. He has taught courses in introductory economics, international economics, development economics and macroeconomics both to undergraduates and to graduate students. Among his other honors, he was awarded the William C. Friday/Class of 1986 Award in 2001 and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professorship between 2007 and 2012.