David McWilliams
David McWilliams (born 1966) is an Irish economist, writer, broadcaster and journalist. McWilliams initially worked with as an economist with the Central Bank of Ireland, UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris. Since 1999, he has been a broadcaster, writer, economic commentator and documentary-maker. He has written four books, The Pope's Children, The Generation Game, Follow the Money and The Good Room, writes two weekly economic columns and has made various documentaries.McWilliams is credited with being one of the first economists to predict the 1990s boom in the Republic of Ireland's economy when working at UBS and he is arguably most famous for his predictions of an Irish property bubble building from between 2000 and 2007 which would ultimately crash.He is known for making economics both accessible to, and popular with, the layman. McWilliams has coined many acronyms about modern Ireland which are so accurate that they are now part of everyday Irish speech such as "Ghost Estates" and "Breakfast Roll Man".In January 2007, McWilliams was selected as one of 250 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and is a regular in the international speaker circuit.
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