Dan O'Brien is Chief Economist of the Institute of International and European Affairs, one of Ireland’s leading think tanks. He is also a columnist with TheCurrency.ie and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at University College Dublin’s Geary Institute. He is a regular commentator on economic, public policy and international affairs issues.
For three years from mid-2010 Dan was economics editor of the Irish Times. Prior to that he spent a dozen years as senior economist and editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, an arm of The Economist Newspaper Group. Dan has also worked for the European Commission and as a consultant for the United Nations. He has worked and lived in Brussels, Geneva, London, Madrid, Rome and Valletta.