Dan O’Brien

Dan O’Brien is chief economist at the Institute of International and European Affairs, Ireland’s leading foreign affairs think tank, a weekly columnist with the Business Post newspaper and adjunct research fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy in University College Dublin. He has spent the longest part of his career to date as senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, an arm of The Economist Newspaper Group. Working from London and Geneva over a dozen years, he prepared economic forecasts for the European Union and its member states and analysed policy and politics across the continent. Other organisations for which he has worked include the European Commission, the United Nations and Forfas, an Irish Government policy unit. In media roles, he has been economics editor of The Irish Times and a weekly columnist with Independent Newspapers.