Alan Ahearne

Professor and Head of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway

Alan Ahearne is Professor and Head of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Ireland and has served as adviser to the IMF and as a research fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank. He is Chairman of the ESRI and Department of Finance Joint Research Programme on the Macro-economy and Taxation. Alan served as economic adviser to Ireland’s former Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan from 2009 to 2011. Prior to coming to Galway in 2005, he was Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, ... Read More