Danny McCoy is CEO at Ibec, the group that represents Irish business. Prior to joining Ibec he was a Senior Research Officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and an economist in the Central Bank of Ireland.

He has held lecturing posts at Dublin City University, University College London, University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. He was a research associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) in London. He has been a visiting lecturer at the IMD Business School in Switzerland and Harvard University in the US.

Danny is a regular contributor in the print and broadcast media and has written columns for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the Irish Times among other international newspapers. The Irish Times recently described Danny as one of the ‘50 people who runs Ireland’.