Past Launch Speakers
Each year since 1990 the Student Economic Review has been launched by a distinguished guest speaker, and since 1994 the occasion has been used to mark the outstanding career success of an alumnus. The names of the guest speakers to date are listed below.
|
Year |
Organisation |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
|
2025 |
ESRI |
Frances Ruane |
|
2024 |
European Central Bank |
Philip Lane |
|
2023 |
UCD |
Ivan Pastine |
|
2023 |
UCD |
Sarah Parlane |
|
2023 |
NUIG |
Edel Doherty |
|
2022 |
Currency Fair |
Andrea Linehan |
|
2022 |
University of Limerick |
Stephen Kinsella |
|
2021 |
ESRI |
John Fitzgerald |
|
2021 |
Irish Economist |
David McWilliams |
|
2020 |
Former Minister of State |
Eithne Fitzgerald |
|
2019 |
Reuters |
Carmel Crimmins |
|
2019 |
Dail Eireann |
Sean Barrett |
|
2018 |
UCD |
Liam Delaney |
|
2017 |
University of Oxford |
Kevin O'Rourke |
|
2016 |
30th Anniversary Launch* |
|
|
2015 |
Formerly J.P. Morgan |
Declan Sheehan |
|
2014 |
Attestor Capital LLP |
Anke Heydenreich |
|
2013 |
Indecon Economic Consulting Group |
Alan Gray |
|
2012 |
Key Capital Limited |
Kyran McStay |
|
2011 |
Department of Transport |
Tom O'Mahony |
|
2010 |
Forfás |
Jane Williams |
|
2009 |
Small Firms Association |
Patricia Callan |
|
2008 |
ESRI |
Alan Barrett |
|
2007 |
Sunday Business Post |
Cliff Taylor |
|
2006 |
HEC University of Lausanne |
Marius Brülhart |
|
2005 |
Competition Authority
|
John Fingleton |
|
2004 |
ITV PLC |
Gerry Foley |
|
2003 |
Irish Stock Exchange |
Tom Healy |
|
2002 |
The Economist |
Margaret Doyle |
|
2001 |
IMF |
Donal Donovan |
|
2000 |
Department of An Taoiseach |
Dermot McCarthy |
|
1999 |
World Bank |
Paula Donovan |
|
1998 |
European Commission |
David O'Sullivan |
|
1997 |
IMF |
Alan Tait |
|
1996 |
OECD |
John Martin |
|
1995 |
London School of Economics |
John Sutton |
|
1994 |
The Independent, London |
Hamish McRae |
|
1993 |
Nottingham University |
David Greenway |
|
1992 |
Brasenose College, Oxford |
Peter Sinclair |
|
1991 |
London School of Economics |
Charles Goodhart |
|
1990 |
Simon Fraser University |
Richard Lipsey |