Patrick Honohan

Patrick Honohan was Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank from September 2009 to November 2015. He is an honorary professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washngton, DC) and a trustee and research fellow of CEPR (London and Paris).  

Previously he spent twelve years on the staff of the World Bank where he was a senior advisor on financial sector issues and led half a dozen of the first wave of Financial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAPs) for developing countries.

During the 1990s he was a research professor at Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute.  In the 1980s he was Economic Advisor to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Garret FitzGerald.  

A graduate of University College Dublin, he received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1978.  He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2002.

He continues to publish widely on topics in financial sector economics, especially central banking. His latest books are Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe; Europe and the Transformation of the Irish Economy (with John FitzGerald) and The Central Bank as Crisis Manager.