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Frances Ruane
Director
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Professor Frances Ruane became Director of the ESRI on the 1st December, 2006. Her previous position was as Associate Professor in the Department of Economics in Trinity College Dublin, where she also held the posts of Director of the Policy Institute and Director of the MSc programme in Economic Policy Studies. Earlier in her career, Professor Ruane held positions in the Industrial Development Authority, the Central Bank of Ireland and Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
Following her undergraduate studies in Economics, Politics and Statistics at University College Dublin, Frances Ruane studied at Nuffield College and was awarded the degrees of B.Phil. and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Council of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, the Council of Economic and Social Studies, and the editorial boards of the Journal of International and Economic Policy and the International Review of Economics and Finance.
In March 2007 Professor Ruane was appointed a member of the Higher Education Authority and in May 2007 she was appointed a member of the Health Research Board. In October 2007 she joined the Council of Economic Advisors to the First Minister of Scotland. She is currently a member of the Education and Training Policy Committee at IBEC and a member of the HEA/ IRCHSS Foresight Working Group on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In April 2009 she became Chairman of the newly formed Expert Group on Resource Allocation and Financing in the Health Sector and in July 2009 she was appointed to the Commission of the National Pensions Reserve Fund.
Frances Ruane was Chair of the National Statistics Board from 1996 to 2003 and represented Ireland on the European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres (CEIES) from 1998 to 2008. She has also served as a member on a number of Irish State Boards, including the National Board for Science and Technology, the Industrial Development Authority, Forfás and Bord Gáis Eireann. In addition, she has participated on numerous governmental advisory committees/groups on issues, including Funding of Third Level Education, Tax & Social Welfare Reform, and Future Skills Needs.
Frances Ruane is currently a Research Associate of the Institute of International Integration Studies, and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics at Trinity College, where she is supervising postgraduate students. She has published extensively, especially in the fields of international economic and industrial development. Her current research interests centre on structural change induced by changing trade regimes and on exploring enterprise heterogeneity.
Download full CV and pre-ESRI publications by Professor Frances Ruane (PDF).
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