Brian Lucey is professor of Finance in Trinity College Dublin and a prolific author and commentator on financial and banking issues. He has worked at Trinity since 1992. Prior to that he was an economist at the Central Bank of Ireland (1987–1992), and before that an administrative officer in the Department of Health (1985–1992). He has a BA in Economics from Trinity College Dublin (1985), an MA in International Economics, Trade and Politics from University College Dublin (1988) and a PhD in Finance from Stirling University (2003).
Charles Larkin is a research associate and adjunct lecturer in the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin, as well as at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at the ESC Toulouse School of Business, France. Charles is also a special adviser on economic policy matters to Senator Sean Barrett. Charles’ main areas of research are political economy and public policy. He was awarded his PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin in 2008. He is a regular contributor to the Irish media and is co-author with Professor Colm Kearney of The IMF and Nicaragua: Development Where People Matter.
Constantin Gurdgiev is the head of research for St. Columbanus AG, a Swiss-based asset management firm, and the adjunct professor of Finance in Trinity College Dublin. He currently serves as the chair of the Ireland Russia Business Association, and holds non-executive appointments on the investment committees of GoldCore Ltd (Ireland) and Heinz Global Asset Management LLC (US). Constantin also lectures in the Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin and serves as a visiting professor of Finance in the Russian State University. In the past, Constantin served as the head of macroeconomics with the Institute for Business Value, IBM, director of research with NCB Stockbrokers Ltd, and group editor and director of Business & Finance Publications. Born in Moscow, Constantin was educated in the University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University and Trinity College, Dublin. He writes a daily blog at trueeconomics.blogspot.com and a number of regular columns in the international and Irish press.
Sean Barrett is the current senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin and has enjoyed a distinguished career in academic circles along with holding high-ranking positions outside of the college, many of which have had a direct effect on transport policy and the tourism industry of Ireland. After graduating from University College Dublin in 1973, Sean went on to obtain a Masters at the highly regarded McMasters University in Canada before returning to UCD to gain his PhD in Economics. Following the completion of his studies, Sean took up the post of lecturer in the Department of Economics in Trinity College Dublin in 1977 and has gone on to enjoy a 34-year-long career in the college. Over the course of his career Sean has made a reputation for himself as one of the foremost economists in Ireland. With over eighty-five different publications, mostly on his expert topics of transport and social policy, he is one of the most published economists in Ireland. However his achievements in economics have not just been limited to academic discourse, as he has been a key figure in legislation, most notably in his role as director of Bord Fáilte in 1984, where he was instrumental in the successful deregulation of Irish airlines, and his role as a vital member of the National Economic and Social Council since 2005. He was elected to Seanad Éireann by Trinity College graduates in April 2011.
Peter Brown is former chief dealer and head of the treasury team in Barclays Bank. He is also the co-founder of the Irish Institute of Financial Trading. Peter is currently the main lecturer in the Irish Institute of Financial Trading, specialising in trading courses. His media profile as a financial commentator has led to him being highly sought after by media in Ireland, the UK and continental Europe. Peter gained his extensive trading knowledge working in Citi Bank, Banque National de Paris, Ulster Bank and ten years in Barclays Bank. He experienced firsthand the British pound crisis of 1990s, giving him deep insight as to how the markets will react to the current Eurozone debt crisis.
Elaine Byrne is an adjutant lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, where she has taught Irish Politics and Comparative Political Reform. Elaine has acted as a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank, Transparency International and Global Integrity. Her first book, Political Corruption in Ireland 1922–2010: A Crooked Harp (Manchester University Press), was published in 2012. Elaine is a regular political columnist and her by-line has featured in the Irish Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Business Post, Sunday Independent, The Times and The Guardian. She is a regular contributor to Irish and international radio and television on Irish political affairs. Elaine combines her academic and media work as a political reform campaigner. Her advocacy work can be accessed at www.politicalreform.ie (co-editor) and from the deliberative democracy initiative www.wethecitizens.ie (co-founder). Her portfolio can be accessed at www.elaine.ie.
Seamus Coffey is a lecturer in the School of Economics in University College Cork. His teaching ranges across undergraduate and postgraduate courses with a particular emphasis on the relationship between government and the economy for undergraduates and applied statistical techniques for postgraduates. He is the programme director for the MSc in Health Economics, which has been running since 2007. His primary research area focuses on access to and utilisation of health services in Ireland and he is currently undertaking a PhD on this topic with the University of Manchester. He is a frequent contributor to the broadcast and print media on the ongoing crisis in the Irish economy.
Karl Deeter is a native of Los Angeles who now calls Ireland home. He has spent his career in financial services, having started in insurance and then moving to retail brokerage and accountancy. He is known for mortgage commentary on behalf of Irish Mortgage Brokers. He is also the head of client advice at accountancy firm Advisors.ie. Karl is a qualified financial advisor; he holds a Mortgage Diploma and a Certificate in Compliance, he is a part-qualified accountant, and he is also working towards a qualification in Islamic Finance. Prior to professional qualifications he studied at Dublin Institute of Technology, obtaining a Certificate and Diploma in Management.
Michael Dowling is a lecturer in Finance in Dublin City University since 2011, with previous employment including positions in the University of Essex and Trinity College Dublin. He holds a Masters in Banking and Finance from the University of Stirling, and a PhD, awarded in 2007, in Behavioural Finance from Trinity College Dublin. His research concentrates on psychological influences on investors and companies, and exploring how culture plays a role in societal and individual economic decision making. Among his publications include research published in the International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Economic Surveys and Journal of Multinational Financial Management.
Declan Ganley is an Irish entrepreneur and is chair and CEO of Rivada Networks, a communications and technology business with operations in the US and Europe. He is co-founder of the Swiss-based asset management company St Columbanus AG. Over the course of his career he has built a number of businesses in emerging markets in the forestry and telecommunications sectors. He founded Libertas as a think tank and later a political movement to promote the cause of a democratic, transparent, accountable and strong European Union. He is a frequent op-ed contributor on the subject of European reform. He is a recipient of the Louisiana Distinguished Service Medal, which was awarded for what was cited as his life-saving actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He has received various awards for entrepreneurship and public advocacy, including the Frode Jacobsen Prize for courage in Denmark and the Michal Tosovsky Prize in the Czech Republic.
Megan Greene is the head of the Western Europe macroeconomics team at Roubini Global Economics and one of the leading voices in interpreting developments in the Eurozone crisis. At RGE, Megan conducts and coordinates macroeconomic forecasts on the Eurozone’s most significant economies and responds to policy decisions (or the lack thereof) in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Germany as well as at the EU level. She regularly appears in print and broadcast media, including the Financial Times and Newsnight. From 2007 to 2011 Megan worked as the Eurozone crisis expert at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Prior to working as an economist, Megan was an investment banking analyst at JP Morgan Chase and an advisor to the Liechtenstein royal family on eradicating money laundering from the principality’s financial services industry. Megan received a BA in Political Economy from Princeton University and an MSc in European Studies from Nuffield College, Oxford University. You can read some of her analysis at www.economistmeg.com and follow her on Twitter (@economistmeg).
Stephen Kinsella is a lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick. His interests are in macroeconomic modelling, banking and regulation, and the Irish economy. He has published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Banking Regulation, Journal of Policy Modeling, Financial Regulation International, as well as in four books. His first PhD is from the National University of Ireland, his second from the New School for Social Research. He recently won an INET grant to build a stock flow consistent macroeconomic model for Ireland. Stephen is a research fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin and a research associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
Anzhela Knyazeva is assistant professor of Finance at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. She holds a PhD from New York University. She has worked on issues related to boards of directors, dividend behaviour, firm locations, bank lending and ownership reforms. Her work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Banking and Finance. She teaches courses in International Finance and Investments and has been included on the Simon Teaching Honor Roll.
Diana Knyazeva is assistant professor of Finance at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. She earned her PhD at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She has research interests in corporate finance, governance and banking. Her papers have examined corporate boards, payout policy, investment behaviour and analyst following. Her most recent work was published in the Journal of Financial Economics. She teaches Capital Budgeting and Financial Institutions. She has been repeatedly placed on the Simon Teaching Honor Roll.
Peter Mathews was educated at Gonzaga College and University College Dublin, where he obtained a B. Comm. and an MBA from UCD’s Smurfit Graduate Business School. He is a qualified chartered accountant with extensive experience in audit, taxation and consultancy with Coopers and Lybrand Dublin (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in the 1970s. In 1979 he joined ICC Bank in Dublin and managed the enterprise development, hi-tech and FDI lending sections of the bank. In 1983 he was appointed to develop and manage the property development, construction and investment lending section, a successful specialist area of lending for the bank. In 1999 he set up an independent banking (property and finance) consultancy practice in Dublin, consulting on the financing of property-related deals and also advising on loans as well as zoning and planning matters. Peter was elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2011 general election. He is a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform.
Gary O’Callaghan was educated at CBS Mitchelstown, Co Cork and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork in 1981. He also earned a Masters in Economic Science from UCC and a PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Virginia, US. He joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC in 1990 and, as a member of the European Department, worked to assuage the fallout from the ERM crisis of 1992–1993. He switched to assisting post-socialist economies after 1994 and spent a year in Bosnia in 1996–1997. He was IMF Resident Representative to Croatia from 1997 to 2001 and then moved to Montenegro as an advisor to the Prime Minister. Having settled in Dubrovnik, he formally left the IMF in 2003 but still works as an economic advisor to governments in the region. He became professor of Economics at Dubrovnik International University in 2010.
Anthony George Phillips was born in Dublin and is currently resident in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has worked in more than twenty countries on four continents. He is a journalist and analyst in political economics and ecology, and editor of the online magazine DensidadRegional.org. He is currently completing a Masters in Economics in the University of Buenos Aires on the subject of financing alternative energy policy and other alternative developments using autochthonous finance. He is a researcher on international public finance and debt-related issues in South America and holds a BSc in Mathematics, Information Sciences and Geology from University College Dublin.
Sam Roberts is the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times. He is the co-author of a biography of Nelson Rockefeller, the author of Who We Are: A Portrait of America (1994), Who We Are Now (2004), The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Atom Spy Case (2001) and A Kind of Genius, about making government work (2009). An anthology of his podcasts, titled Only in New York, was published in November 2009. He is the editor of America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Re-Invention of New York (2010). He is the host of the New York Times Close Up, an hour-long weekly news and interview programme on New York 1, the all-news cable channel.
Joseph E. Stiglitz is university professor at Columbia University, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was chair of the US Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000. In 1979 Stiglitz received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded biennially to the American economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the subject. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, held the Drummond Professorship at All Souls College, Oxford, and has also taught at MIT, Yale, Stanford and Princeton. He is the author most recently of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy.
Marc Tomljanovich is an associate professor of Economics at Drew University, a liberal arts college in the United States. Marc’s research focuses on applied macroeconomic issues, including the impact of monetary policy structures on financial markets, the influence policy makers have on regional and national economic growth, and the effects of options listings on underlying financial instruments. Marc’s work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including American Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Futures Markets, Empirical Economics and Contemporary Economic Policy. Marc also is a regular weekly contributor to the Wall Street Journal. In 2006 he was the recipient of a National Sciences Foundation grant that helped fund an annual national workshop for macroeconomics research at liberal arts colleges. In 2010 he was chosen as teacher of the year at his institution.
Huginn Freyr Þorsteinsson is a philosopher of science and adjunct professor at the University of Akureyri. In the aftermath of Iceland’s financial meltdown he became the adviser to Iceland’s Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2011. He is currently the adviser to the Icelandic Minister of Economic Affairs and the Icelandic Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture.
John Walsh is the editor of Business & Finance Magazine. He took up this position in March 2008 after serving as deputy editor since 2006. Prior to joining Business & Finance, Walsh had been in London for over seven years. He trained as a journalist with the publishing firm Incisive Media. Subsequent positions included economics/markets reporter with Bridge/Reuters, sub-editor with the Financial Times and corporate correspondent with the energy news service Argus Media. Walsh has also worked for the BBC on its flagship current affairs programme Panorama and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.