Prof Alan Barrett, ESRI CEO to Open #PRIIConf19

Professor Alan Barrett, Chief Executive Officer of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) will open the 2019 PRII Annual Conference in 24 October. He will speak on the realities of a post-Brexit economy and the challenges that our clients and employers will face in 2020 and beyond.

Professor Barrett received his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University in 1994 and joined the ESRI that year. He was seconded to the Department of Finance from 2001 to 2003 and to Trinity College Dublin from 2011 to 2013. Most of his research has been in the areas of labour economics, population economics and macroeconomics.

Early in his career at the ESRI he undertook work on environmental economics. In 1997, he co-authored a book on environmental policy (The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle: A Case-study of Ireland, Ashgate: UK). Between 2005 and 2010, he was a lead author of the ESRI’s Quarterly Economic Commentary. He was a member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council from 2011 to 2015. He has chaired each National Economic Dialogue from 2015 to 2017. He is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Labour Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and a member (ex officio) of the Climate Change Advisory Council. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.

He is a frequent contributor to radio and television discussions on economic matters and has been quoted in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.

Click here to find out more and to book your place for 20:20 VISION  — the 2019 PRII Annual Conference on October 24.

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