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John Fitz Gerald
Research Professor
john.fitzgerald@esri.ie
In the ESRI John Fitz Gerald is responsible for research on Macroeconomics, Energy and Environment and for the Institute's Energy Policy Research Centre.
John Fitz Gerald is the president of the Irish Economic Association he is also a member of the Irish Energy Research Council and of the High Level Group on Green Enterprise.
John Fitz Gerald studied history and economics at University College Dublin where he took masters degrees successively in History and in Economics. He began his career in the Irish Department of Finance in 1972 where he was the Department's macro-economic "fire brigade" - responsible for economic modelling and policy analysis, as well as applied economic research. John was a TK Whitaker Research fellow in the Economic and Social Research Institute in 1982/83, and joined the ESRI in 1984.
Since joining the ESRI, he has published in a number of different fields. In collaboration with John Bradley and other colleagues in the ESRI he helped develop the ESRI's macro-economic modelling programme. The fruits of this work have been published in a range of journals including the European Economic Review, Economic Modelling and The Economic and Social Review, as well as in many other ESRI publications. He is the joint author of a study of the impact of 1992 and the EU Structural Funds on the Irish economy as well as a number of studies evaluating the impact of the EU Structural Funds. In 1992, 1999 and again in 2006 he led a team that published influential reports on Ireland's investment priorities. He has also undertaken studies of the impact of 1992 on the distribution sector in the EU as a whole and how taxes may distort shopping patterns in border areas.
He was a joint author of the report for the Irish Department of Finance on the Economic Implications for Ireland of EMU, which was published in July 1996. This report was central to the debate on Ireland's membership of EMU. He is a joint author of the ESRI's Medium-Term Review, which provides a detailed analysis of Ireland's economic prospects over the next decade.
Through his work in the ESRI's Energy Policy Research Centre he has published research on energy demand in Ireland, studies of the economics of global warming, and an analysis of how the Irish energy sector might be restructured to enhance competition and efficiency.
He was a member of the National Economic and Social Council from 1999 to 2006 and he was a member of the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation between 2003 and 2006. He chaired the Renewable Energy Strategy Group for the Department of Public Enterprise in 1999-2000. He was a member of the Independent Water Review Panel in Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008. He was a member of the EU "Group for Economic Analysis" from 2002-2004 advising the President of the EU Commission on matters of Economic Policy. From 2004 to 2008 he was president of the EUROFRAME group of European economic research institutes.
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