Peter Clinch is an Irish academic and economist, who has served as Chairperson of

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Career

Clinch's academic specialisms are sustainable economic growth and environmental economics. In 2002, he co-authored After the Celtic Tiger with Brendan Walsh and Frank Convery pointing out fragilities in the Irish economy in advance Ireland's economic crisis. Clinch was a critic of Irish government decisions on planning policy and decentralisation during the Irish Celtic Tiger boom describing the latter as “totally inconsistent with the National Spatial Strategy" and was said to be unenthusiastic about Ireland's social partnership model. He was subsequently employed as Special Adviser to the Taoiseach (prime minister) of

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between June 2008 and January 2011 where he advised on medium-term economic policy, enterprise policy and environmental policy which included drafting the productivity growth plan “Building Ireland’s Smart Economy” published by the Government in December 2008. He was a participant in the first Irish Global Economic Forum in September 2009. He is Jean Monnet (Full) Professor and Chair of Public Policy at

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. He is a former Vice-President of University College Dublin UCD where he had responsibility for Innovation and Corporate Partnerships. Clinch is chairperson of

and former Chair of the

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of Ireland. He has over 100 publications.

Awards and honours

*Fellow of the

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*Lifetime Honorary Member of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clinch, Peter Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at Gonzaga College 21st-century Irish economists Academics of University College Dublin Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Living people Science Foundation Ireland