Liam Halligan is a British economist, journalist and broadcaster.
Since 2003, Halligan has written his weekly "Economics Agenda" column in The Sunday Telegraph - which has been recognised with a British Press Award.
Between 2007 and 2013, he was Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management, the world's largest Russia/CIS-focused asset manager, controlling investments worth over $4bn for a range of institutional clients from Europe, the US and the Middle East, including pension funds, insurance companies, charities and sovereign wealth funds.
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Education
Halligan was born and grew up in Kingsbury, London NW9. He won an entrance scholarship to The John Lyon School - where he was Head Boy. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick and an M.Phil in Economics from St Antony's College, Oxford, where he was financed by an ESRC competition award. While at Oxford, he was a member of the Oxford University Boat Club and rowed in the 1994 Isis (2nd Boat) Race crew which lost to Cambridge.
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Career
On completing his undergraduate degree in 1991, Halligan became a research intern at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC. He was a summer intern at the International Monetary Fund in 1992 and 1993, where he worked at the Fiscal Affairs Department under Vito Tanzi. He also spent a full academic year as Head of Research at The Social Market Foundation, a Westminster-based think-tank, where he worked with David Owen, SMF Chairman Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky and Directors Daniel Finkelstein and Rick Nye.
In 1994, after his graduate degree, Halligan moved to Moscow - where he co-founded Russian Economic Trends, an independent source of data and commentary, and the Russian European Centre for Economic Policy, which advised the Russian government. During that period, he worked closely with London School of Economics Professor Richard Layard, as well as Russian Deputy Economics Minister Sergei Vasilliev and the Russian economist Andrei Illarionov, who later became an advisor to President Vladimir Putin. Halligan then wrote a weekly column for The Moscow Times and covered Russia for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit, while also writing on the Former Soviet Union for The Wall Street Journal and Euromoney.
In 1996, Halligan returned to the UK to become Political Correspondent at the Financial Times, based at the House of Commons. He then moved to Channel 4 News - where, until 2006, he was the programme's Economics Correspondent.
While at Channel 4 News, Halligan established himself as an economics/business print commentator. Between 1999 and 2002, he wrote a weekly column for Sunday Business, before moving to The Sunday Telegraph in 2003. In 2006/07, Halligan was Economics Editor at The Sunday Telegraph. From 2008 to 2010, he had a monthly column in GQ Magazine.
Halligan has also written for The Spectator, the New Statesman, Prospect, House Magazine and the Parliamentary Monitor, as well as presenting Wake up to Money on BBC Radio Five Live. He regularly appears on TV and radio to comment on UK and global economic and business trends. His credits include the BBC's Newsnight, Question Time and the Today programme, as well as Sky News, Jeff Randall Live, Frost over the World, CNN's Global Exchange, CNBC Squawk Box, and The Keiser Report.
Documentaries
While at Channel Four News, Halligan researched, wrote and presented several documentaries for the Channel Four Dispatches strand:
February 2007 - "NHS: Where did all the money go?"
August 2006 - "Public Service, Private Profit - Investigating PFI"
January 2006 - "Whose Pension are you Paying?"
January 2004 - "How Safe is Your Pension?"
In October 2013, he researched, wrote and presented an Analysis for BBC Radio 4 - "Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction"
Writing/Broadcasting Awards
2007 - British Press Awards - Business Commentator of the Year
2007 - Workworld TV Programme of the Year - NHS Dispatches, made with Mentorn Television
2007 - Workworld Columnist of the Year
2006 - Wincott Business Programme of the Year Award - PFI Dispatches, made with Steve Boulton Productions
2006 - Best Broadcast Story, Business Journalist of the Year Awards - £30bn pensions black hole, made with Old Street Films
2005 - Best Broadcast Story, Business Journalist of the Year Awards - How Safe is Your Pension?, made with Mentorn/RawTV
2004 - Workworld TV Programme of the Year - Channel Four News
2003 - Bradford & Bingley Personal Finance Programme of the Year Award - Channel Four News at Noon
2003 - Workworld TV Programme of the Year - Channel Four News
2001 - Workworld TV Programme of the Year - Channel Four News
2001 - Wincott Business Programme of the Year Award - Channel Four News
1999 - Industrial Society Programme of the Year - Channel Four News
1998 - Wincott Business Broadcaster of the Year Award
Publications
Outside journalism, Halligan has written chapters, pamphlets and short books with, among others Frank Field and Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky.
2012 - "Africa: The Last True investment Frontier" in The EU and Africa, A. Adebajo & K Whiteman (Eds.)
2009 - "Keynes: Economic Prospects for our Grandchildren", in "Well-being: How to live the good life and how government can help" S. Griffiths and R. Reeves (Eds.)
2006 - "No Choice but Compulsion: Why we should be forced to save for old age", in "Defusing the Pension Time Bomb", Terence O'Dwyer (Ed)
1998 - "Lessons from Attempted Macroeconomic Stabilisations in Russia, with Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Social Market Foundation
1997 - "Consumer Price Reforms & Safety Nets in Transition Economies", with Dr Ehtisham Ahmad, in Essays in Honor of Vito Tanzi, Blejer M. & Ter-Minassian T (Eds.)
1997 - "Investment Disincentives in Russia", with Dr Pavel Teplukhin, in Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, Winter 1997
1995 - "A Guide to Russia's Parliamentary Elections," Economist Intelligence Unit, Vienna.
1994 - "Europe Isn't Working", with Frank Field and Matthew Owen, London: Institute of Community Studies
1993 - "Beyond Unemployment", with Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Social Market Foundation
1992 - "Another Great Depression?" with Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Social Market Foundation
Irish Citizenship
As well as being a UK citizen, Halligan is also a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. He regularly appears on Irish radio/TV to comment on UK economics and politics.
In 2012, Halligan was asked by Ireland's Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Eamonn Gilmore to join the Global Irish Network - a high-level advisory board of Irish nationals living outside the Republic of Ireland
In October 2013, Halligan was a panellist at the Kilkenomics economics/comedy festival, held in Kilkenny.
Other Activities
Halligan sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation. He is also on the Advisory Panel of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, an ESRC-funded research centre based within the Economics Department of the University of Warwick.
References
External links
- www.liamhalligan.com Liam Halligan's website (with links to documentary and writing archive)
- Twitter: Liam Halligan
- Liam Halligan Liam Halligan Debrett's Entry
Source of article : Wikipedia
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