John FitzGerald

John FitzGerald is an adjunct professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin and former research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute.

He joined the ESRI in 1984, after 12 years at the Department of Finance. He holds master’s degrees in History and Economics from University College Dublin.

FitzGerald has published extensively on fiscal policy and the behaviour of the Irish economy and on energy and climate policy.

He is currently a member of the Commission of the Central Bank of Ireland and he is Chairman of the Irish government’s Climate Change Advisory Council. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

He is a past President of the Association d’Instituts Européens de Conjoncture Économique, of the Irish Economic Association and of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.