John McCarthy

John McCarthy, Chief Economist, Department of Finance

John McCarthy is the Chief Economist in the Department, with responsibility for the provision of economic and budgetary analysis and forecasts. He is currently the vice-chair of the OECD’s Economic Policy Committee and an adviser to the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council; he was previously the chair of the European Union’s output gap working group and a member of the National Statistics Board.

He holds a B.A. (Economics and Mathematics) from Trinity College Dublin and an M.Econ.Sc from UCD. He previously worked as a senior economist in the Central Bank of Ireland.