Claire Keane

Dr. Claire Keane is a Senior Research Officer at The Economic & Social Research Institute.
She joined the firm's Social Policy division in September 2007.
Her research interests include labour economics, income tax, welfare and pension policy as well as poverty and income distribution analysis.
She works mainly in the area of taxation, welfare and pensions working on the ESRI tax-benefit model, SWITCH.
She worked in the financial services and regulatory sector before working at the ESRI.
Dr. Keane holds a Bachelor of Business Studies degree (specializing in economics and finance), a Masters degree in Economics and completed a PhD in Economics at University College Dublin in 2012.