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Patrick honohan governor of the central bank of ireland speaks to ucd economics society
Patrick Honohan (born October 1949, in Dublin) is an economist who was Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from September 2009 to November 2015. Among his main tasks was to help to resolve the Post-2008 Irish banking crisis. He is married with one son.
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- Patrick honohan governor of the central bank of ireland speaks to ucd economics society
- Patrick honohan on restoring credit to the irish economy
- Education
- Professional career
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Patrick honohan on restoring credit to the irish economy
Education
Honohan graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at University College Dublin in 1971 and received an M.A. from the same institution in 1973. From the London School of Economics he received an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (1974) and a PhD (1978).
Professional career
Before pursuing postgraduate research, Honohan took a position with the International Monetary Fund in 1971. While completing his PhD in London, he joined the economics staff of the Central Bank of Ireland. During the 1980s, he was Economic Advisor to Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and subsequently began working with the World Bank. Honohan then spent seven years as a Research Professor with the Economic and Social Research Institute before returning to the World Bank in 1998 as a Lead Economist and subsequently Senior Advisor on financial sector policy.
The author of numerous academic papers and monographs, he has taught economics at the LSE, University of California, San Diego, the Australian National University and University College Dublin. He was appointed Professor of International Financial Economics and Development in 2007 at Trinity College Dublin.
In September 2009, Honohan was appointed as the tenth governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. In this position he acquired a reputation as a "straight talker". His May 2010 Report on the Irish Banking Crisis provided an in depth analysis of the regulatory and supervisory shortcomings that contributed to the post-2008 Irish Banking Crisis.