Patrick Bolton (born June 11, 1957, Dublin, Ireland) is the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School (2005-present)[1] and a Visiting Professor of Finance at Imperial College London (2018-present).

[1] He is studying the ways in which institutional investors and financial markets assess and respond to risks from climate change,[4] and how public policy influences corporate behaviour and the actions of institutions.

[5][6][7] Bolton has published a number of books, including Contract Theory (2004) with Mathias Dewatripont, Credit Markets for the Poor (2005) with Howard Rosenthal, The Economics of Contracts (2008), Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-term Investing (2012) with Frederic Samama and Joseph E. Stiglitz and Coping with the Climate Crisis: Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination (2018), with Rabah Arezki, Karim El Aynaoui and Maurice Obstfeld.

[8] Bolton was born on June 11, 1957, in Dublin, Ireland and holds dual French and American nationality.

Laboratoire d' Econométrie de L' Ecole Polytechnique (1989-1991), and was the Cassel Professor of Money and Banking at the London School of Economics (1991-1994).