Patrick Honohan

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Patrick Honohan (born October 9, 1949 in Dublin ) is an Irish economist . He was President of the Central Bank of Ireland from September 2009 to November 2015 . One of his most important tasks was to help overcome the Irish banking crisis that had been going on since 2008.

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education

Honohan earned a BA in Economics and Mathematics from University College Dublin in 1971 and an MA in 1973 from the same institution. He received an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1974. in Econometrics and Business Mathematics and a PhD in 1978 .

Professional background

Prior to pursuing postgraduate research, Honohan accepted a position at the International Monetary Fund in 1971 . While completing his PhD in London, he also joined the economics staff at the Central Bank of Ireland. During the 1980s he was an economics advisor to Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and then started working at the World Bank . Honohan then spent seven years as a research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute , before returning to the World Bank in 1998 as a Lead Economist, where he subsequently became Chief Financial Sector Policy Advisor.

In addition to authoring a variety of academic discussion papers and monographs, Honohan has taught economics at LSE, University of California, San Diego, Australian National University and University College Dublin. He was appointed Professor of International Finance and Development at Trinity College Dublin in 2007.

In September 2009 Honohan was named President of the Central Bank of Ireland.

In 2002 he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Members: Patrick Honohan. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Honohan, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin