Alan Barrett

Dr. Alan Barrett is a Research Professor at The Economic & Social Research Institute.
He served as CEO of the Institute between 2015 and 2025.
Dr. Barrett was seconded to the Department of Finance from 2001 to 2003 and to Trinity College Dublin from 2011 to 2013.
Most of his research has been in the areas of labour economics, population economics and macroeconomics.
His academic work has been published in journals such as Labour Economics, the Journal of Population Economics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the International Migration Review, Population Research and Policy Review, the Economic and Social Review, the National Institute Economic Review and Economics Letters.
Early in his career at the ESRI, Dr. Barrett undertook work on environmental economics.
He was a member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council from 2011 to 2015.
He has chaired each National Economic Dialogue from 2015 to 2017.
He is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Labour Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and a member (ex officio) of the Climate Change Advisory Council.
Dr. Barrett is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.
He received his Ph.D.
in Economics from Michigan State University in 1994.