Michael Spagat  is ORG's consultant on casualty recording and estimation.  He is a Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway College, University of London.  He gained his Ph.D. at Harvard University and has held faculty posts at Brown University and the University of Illinois.

  His  papers on armed conflict have been published in Nature,  New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Peace Research, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and PLoS Medicine.  His current research addresses universal patterns in modern war, the Dirty War Index, civilian casualties in the Iraq conflict, and problems in the measurement of war deaths.