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Liam Halligan
Born (1969-04-29) 29 April 1969 (age 55)
London, England
Nationality
  • British
  • Irish
EducationThe John Lyon School
University of Warwick
St Antony's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Economist, journalist, broadcaster
Employer(s)The Economist, Financial Times, Channel 4 News, GQ, The Daily Telegraph
SpouseLucy Ward
Children3
AwardsBritish Press Award, Wincott Award, Business Journalist of the Year Award
Websiteliamhalligan.com

Liam James Halligan (born 29 April 1969) is a British economist, journalist, author and broadcaster. He is the Economics and Business Editor of GB News, co-presenting a daily show on the channel. Since 2003, Halligan has written his weekly "Economics Agenda" column in The Sunday Telegraph. He also co-presents the Telegraph's weekly Planet Normal podcast.

Early life and education

Halligan was born and grew up in Kingsbury, London.

Halligan attended the John Lyon School on a scholarship, where he became Head Boy. The first person in his family to attend university, he graduated with a first-class degree in Economics from the University of Warwick and went on to gain an M.Phil in Economics from St Antony's College, Oxford.

Career

Economic and academia

In 1992, Halligan joined his former university tutor Robert Skidelsky at The Social Market Foundation, a think tank based in Westminster. During the early 1990s, he worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute and in Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., USA, as research economist.

In 1994, Halligan joined the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and moved to Moscow. Together with other economists from LSE, Oxford and Harvard, he co-founded Russian Economic Trends, an independent source of macroeconomic data and commentary. He also helped to establish the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, an inter-governmental policy advisory group.

During this period, Halligan wrote a weekly column for The Moscow Times and covered Russian economics and politics for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit. He also wrote on the Former Soviet Union for The Wall Street Journal and Euromoney.

Journalism

In 1996, Halligan was appointed Political Correspondent for the Financial Times, based at Westminster. He covered the 1997 General Election and Good Friday Agreement as part of a team led by Political Editor Robert Peston. He then became Economics Correspondent at Channel 4 News where he remained until 2006.

From 1999 to 2002, while at Channel 4 News, Halligan wrote a weekly economics column for Sunday Business, before moving his column to The Sunday Telegraph. In 2006, he was appointed Economics Editor of The Sunday Telegraph. From 2008 to 2010, he wrote a monthly column for GQ Magazine.

Halligan has written columns for New Statesman, Prospect, and UnHerd. He continues to provide regular commentaries for The Spectator and The Sun. He has presented shows on LBC and BBC Radio Five Live.

Halligan was a founding panellist on the daily television discussion show CNN Talk, launched in 2017. He regularly featured on the late-night BBC television show This Week, presented by Andrew Neil. When the BBC scrapped the programme in 2019, Halligan criticised the corporation for making a "blindingly obvious mistake".

In 2020, he was shortlisted by the Government for the post of TV Press Secretary.

In March 2021, Halligan was named as Economics and Business Editor at GB News and co-presenter of a daily lunchtime show with former Labour Party MP Gloria De Piero. "In an increasingly complex world, the public is hungry for analysis, explanation and a range of viewpoints", he said on his appointment.

Awards

  • 2005 – Best Broadcast Story, Business Journalist of the Year Awards – How Safe is Your Pension?, made with Mentorn/RawTV
  • 2006 – Best Broadcast Story, Business Journalist of the Year Awards – £30bn pensions black hole, made with Old Street Films
  • 2007 – Workworld Columnist of the Year
  • 2007 – British Press Awards – Business Commentator of the Year

Irish ties

In 2012, Halligan was asked by the Republic of Ireland's Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Eamon Gilmore to join the Global Irish Network – an advisory board of Irish nationals living outside the island of Ireland.

Other activities

Halligan sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation. He is also on the Advisory Panel of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, an ESRC-funded research centre based within the Economics Department of the University of Warwick.

References

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  11. Halligan, Liam; Teplukhin, Pavel (1 March 1996). "Investment disincentives in Russia". Communist Economies and Economic Transformation. 8 (1): 29–51. doi:10.1080/14631379608427843. ISSN 1351-4393.
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