A short summary of my career to-date
I am currently Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Division at the Central Bank of Ireland. The main task of the Division is to brief the Governor of the Central Bank in advance of Governing Council meetings of the ECB (every six weeks), where monetary policy is set for the euro area as whole.
Previous roles at the Central Bank of Ireland were a Senior Advisor for Research and Analysis to the Director of Economics and Statistics at the Central Bank of Ireland.; Deputy Head, Research and Analysis in the Irish Economic Analysis Division, Central Bank of Ireland; and Manager cross-directorate research projects. My primary research interest is Labour Economics.
Here is a short summary of my career to-date.
BA Economics and Philosophy, University College Dublin, 1997.
MA Economics, University College Dublin, 1998. Thesis: "Aspects of the Labour Market for New Graduates in Ireland: 1982-1997" (Economic and Social Review, 1999).
PhD Economics, University of Warwick, 2004 (Supervisors: Professors Ian Walker and Andrew Oswald). My thesis title was "Wage Determination, Wage Subsidies and Training”. The Chapters all appeared as working papers from various institutions. You can find them all in the list of publications on the CV page. Two of the chapters were combined and published as "Welfare to Work, Wages and Wage Growth" in Fiscal Studies, Sep. 2005.
I have worked as an economist at the Central Bank of Ireland since December 2010.
I worked in the Financial Stability Division of the Bank until December 2012, working mainly on issues relating to household debt-distress.
In December 2012, I moved to the Irish Economic Analysis Division (Senior Economist), where my main research areas were labour markets (wage formation in particular) and household income, consumption and wealth (the Irish Household Finance and Consumption Survey in particular). From 2016-2018, I was Deputy Head for Research in the Division (acting).
In 2018, I moved to be Senior Advisor for Research to the Chief Economist at the Central Bank.
In 2021, I became Deputy Head in the Monetary Policy Division at the Central Bank of Ireland.
Prior to joining the Central Bank of Ireland, I was Deputy Head of Economics at the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation from 2007-10, where I was responsible for price cap regulation at Dublin airport and the economic regulation of Irish air space.
From 2002 to 2007, I was a Senior Economist at Frontier Economics in London, where I worked across a number of areas including competition, regulation and public policy.