Patrick Honohan

Patrick Honohan has been a CEPR Trustee since January 2016. He was Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and a member of the governing council of the ECB from September 2009 until November 2015, and is a CEPR Research Fellow. He is an Honorary Professor at Trinity College Dublin (where he was formerly Professor of International Financial Economics and Development) and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously he was a Senior Advisor in the World Bank working on issues of financial policy reform. During the 1980s he was Economic Advisor to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister). He has published widely on issues ranging from exchange rate regimes and purchasing-power parity, to migration, cost-benefit analysis and statistical methodology. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a past president of the Irish Economic Association.