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Member Profile: Padraig Carmody

08 June 2018

Padraig Carmody, Geographer and Author, was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.

Pádraig Carmody is an associate professor and head of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on African development and has received, or been the lead on, successful grants from various agencies, such as the MacArthur Foundation. He is former editor-in-chief of Geoforum and received the 2018 Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang Distinguished Scholar Award in African Geography, Africa Specialty Group, from the Association of American Geographers.

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