Tackling inflation is policymakers’ biggest challenge in 2023 but the question is can it be done gently or will they have to go in hard? John Deehan will be joined by esteemed economists David McWilliams and Jim Power to discuss this and other issues facing the Irish economy in 2023.
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Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Time: 10:00
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers
David McWilliams
Economist, Author, Journalist & Lecturer
David McWilliams is an economist, author, journalist, documentary-maker and broadcaster. He is Adjunct Professor of Global Economics at the School of Business Trinity College Dublin. David is ranked 10th most influential economist in the world.
He has devoted his entire professional life to the objective of making economics as widely available and easily understandable on as many platforms and to as many people as possible –and is having a laugh doing it.
As well as writing a weekly economics column in the Irish Times, he is active on social media and was named Ireland’s “most influential Twitter user” in 2016. David uses new ways to explain our economic world for example Punk Economics and a new venture with the FT, Punk FT, deploy cartoons to make economics digestible for normal, non-nerdy, punters.
Jim Power
Economist
Jim Power is one of Ireland’s leading and best-known economic analysts. Jim has a wealth of experience in delivering insightful economic analysis, forecasts, and commentary to both Irish and international audiences.
He is a frequent contributor to media and carries out consultancy work for many public and private sector bodies.
He is a graduate of UCD and lectures part-time on the MSc Management, and MBA programmes at the Smurfit School of Business, UCD.
Jim was previously the Chief Economist at Friends First, Chief Economist at Bank of Ireland and Treasury Economist at AIB.
Presenter
John Deehan
Investment Sales Manager Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland