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David McWilliams

Economist | Broadcaster | Bestselling Author

David McWilliams
Showcase 2018: The Human Factor of Economics
Interview: George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
David McWilliams
Punk Economics
What Causes a Financial Crisis Domino Effect?
China Will Eventually Take Over As the World's Leading Economic Player
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David McWilliams
Showcase 2018: The Human Factor of Economics
Interview: George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
David McWilliams
Punk Economics
What Causes a Financial Crisis Domino Effect?
China Will Eventually Take Over As the World's Leading Economic Player

David McWilliams is ranked among most influential economists in the world. Consistently accurate in his forecasts, he was the only economist in Ireland who accurately forecast a strong UK Brexit vote, the Trump victory, and the 2008 global crash. With the objective to make economics easily digestible — and even fun — McWilliams draws on his unique sense of humour when he speaks on trends in growth, currencies, financial markets, and geo-politics.

McWilliams is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, is a regular contributor to Google’s famed Zeitgeist conference, and is the third most widely followed economist in the world with 238,000 Twitter followers. He is an Adjunct Professor of Global Economics at Trinity College Dublin, and writes a weekly economics column for The Irish Times.

A bestselling author of four books, McWilliams has presented award-winning documentaries, and brought a sell-out, one-man economics stand-up show to the stage at Ireland’s renowned national theatre, The Abbey. He is the founder of world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival, Kilkenomics, and also the founder of Ireland’s premier literary and ideas festival, the Dalkey Book Festival.

As a speaker, McWilliams has presented for companies on four continents such as Google, Erickson, Sony, Altgeris, Citywire, Casenove, and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.

McWilliams worked as an economist in the Irish Central Bank and later in the financial markets with UBS and Banque Nationale de Paris. He studied economics at Trinity College Dublin and the College of Europe in Bruges.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • I would like to thank you for your efforts in participating in our Fourth Financial Markets Forum 2012. The Event was remarkably successful with over 600 attendees and it would not have been possible without your efforts and contribution. Your participation certainly enhanced the profile of our line-up of international speakers

  • Our event was a great success, we have received such positive feedback from our guests who attended. We were all very impressed with David, his speech was very entertaining, humorous and easy to listen to. He interacted very well with our guests and with our own Actavis team and he seemed very knowledgeable of our industry. It was great to see our guests so animated throughout David’s speech.

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