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Biography

I am Full Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick, Ireland,  Head of the Department of Economics, Co-Director of the UL's Immersive Software Engineering programme, and Research Associate at the Rhodes Centre for International Finance at Brown University. I am a member of the Irish Government's AI Advisory Council.

I am Economic Advisor to An Taoiseach, Simon Harris.

My research is archived at Orcid and citations, etc., at Google Scholar. My academic CV is here as html, and here as PDF. That's me looking a bit grumpy over there to the right. You can sometimes, although rarely, find me on Twitter. I used to love that place.

I am Chief Economics Writer for The Currency.news, and was for 4 years a columnist with the Sunday Business Post. I have written for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Irish Independent. I have twice won Economic Commentator of the Year for my columns.

Education

  • PhD 2011

    PhD in Economics

    New School for Social Research

  • PhD 2007

    PhD in Economics

    National University of Ireland, Galway

  • MPhil 2007

    MPhil in Economics

    New School for Social Research

  • M.Econ.Sc 2003

    M.Econ.Sc in Economics

    National University of Ireland, Galway

  • BA 2002

    B.A, Economics and Social Studies

    Trinity College, Dublin

Employment

  • Present2022

    Full Professor of Economics

    University of Limerick

  • 20222018

    Professor of Economics

    University of Limerick

  • 20212017

    Senior Fellow

    University of Melbourne

  • 20182013

    Associate Professor of Economics B

    University of Limerick

  • 20132009

    Associate Professor of Economics A

    University of Limerick

  • 20092006

    Assistant Professor of Economics

    University of Limerick

Honours & Awards

  • 2018
    Economic Commentator of the Year
    Smurfit Business Journalist Awards
  • 2017
    Miriam Hederman O'Brien Prize
    Highly commended
  • 2016
    Economic Commentator of the Year
    Smurfit Business Journalist Awards
  • 2015
    Excellence in Research Award (Early Career)
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