[1][2][3] Seabright did his undergraduate studies at New College, Oxford, and gained congratulatory first class honours in 1980.
He was Assistant Director of Research and a Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge until 2001.
He is a contributor to the London Review of Books and is also the Chairman of Bruegel's Scientific Council, Managing Editor of Economic Policy since 2001 and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research since 1989.
Seabright has been a consultant to private sector firms, governments and international organisations including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations.
He has been visiting professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India (1984–85), the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1997–98), the College of Europe in Bruges (1998–99), the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2000), and the Ecole Polytechnique near Paris (1998–2003).