Liam Halligan

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Liam Halligan
Born (1969-04-29) 29 April 1969 (age 54)
London, England
Nationality
  • British
  • Irish
Education
The John Lyon School
University of Warwick
St Antony's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Economist, journalist, broadcaster
Employer(s)GB News
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.[1] He is currently economics and business editor at GB News.[2]

Since 2003, Halligan has written a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph.[3][4] He also presents The Telegraph's weekly Planet Normal podcast.[5]

Early life and education

Halligan was born to an Irish family and grew up in

John Lyon School on a scholarship, where he became head boy.[7]

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 MPhil in economics from St Antony's College, Oxford.[8][9]

Career

Economics and policy

In 1992, following graduation, Halligan joined his former university tutor Robert Skidelsky at The Social Market Foundation, the Westminster-based think tank.[9] He later worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute and in the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA, as a research economist.[9]

In 1994, Halligan joined the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and moved to Moscow.[9] In Moscow he shared a flat with Dominic Cummings.[10]

Together with other economists from LSE, Oxford and Harvard, he co-founded Russian Economic Trends, an academic journal that published macroeconomic data, analysis and commentary on Russia.[11] He also helped to establish the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, an inter-governmental policy advisory group.[12]

Since 1997, Halligan has sat on the Policy Advisory Board of The Social Market Foundation.

ESRC-funded research centre at the University of Warwick.[14]

In 2017, Halligan was invited to join an expert advisory committee at the Department for International Trade.[15] He has also testified before a number of Parliamentary committees. In April 2020, he called for the Government to build more social housing.[16] In February 2021, he appeared before the Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee on quantitative easing.[17]

In 2019, he published Home Truths, which argues that the UK's housing shortage deprives vulnerable families of decent social housing.[18]

In 2020, he was shortlisted by the Government for the post of Downing Street TV Press Secretary.[19]

Journalism

In the early 1990s, Halligan wrote a weekly column for

The Economist Intelligence Unit.[20] He also wrote about the Soviet Union for The Wall Street Journal and Euromoney.[21]

In 1996, Halligan was appointed political correspondent at the Financial Times.[9] He covered the 1997 general election and Good Friday Agreement as part of a team led by political editor Robert Peston.[22] He went on to become economics correspondent at Channel 4 News, where he remained until 2006.[1]

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.[23] In 2006, he was appointed economics editor at The Sunday Telegraph.[24] From 2008 to 2010, he wrote a monthly column for GQ.[25]

Halligan was a founding panellist on the daily television discussion show CNN Talk.

This Week, presented by Andrew Neil.[26] When the BBC axed the programme in 2019, Halligan said the corporation had made a "blindingly obvious mistake".[27]

Since 2004, he has also regularly presented standalone documentaries on Channel 4, including for Dispatches, and sits on the jury of the Royal Television Society's Specialist Journalist award.[28]

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.[29]

From September 2021 to September 2022, Halligan presented his own show on GB News, On The Money, which ran for an hour every weekday and focused on financial topics. On 1 September 2022, it was announced that the show was to be axed, with Halligan having an increased presence on other GB News programmes, centering around the

Cost of living crisis
.

Halligan has also written for

BBC Radio Five Live.[32][33]

Business

Between 2008 and 2013, Halligan was Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management, an institutional asset management focussed on the Soviet Union.[11]

Since 2014, Halligan has been a shareholder at Bne IntelliNews, where he is also Editor-at-Large.[34]

Personal life

He lives with journalist and author Lucy Ward, and they have two daughters and one son together.[35]

Halligan is a citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland. In 2012, he was invited to join the Global Irish Network, an advisory board of Irish nationals living outside Ireland.[36] He is also a regular panellist at the Kilkenomics Festival.[37]

In 2016, he was appointed a Governor at John Lyon School.[38] His hobbies include guitar, double bass, traditional Irish music, choral music, film, rowing, and sailing.[1]

Recognition

As an individual

For output

Selected bibliography

  • 2020. Groupthink, Brexit and the Future of the BBC. Published in Is The BBC Still In Peril – And Does It Deserve To Be? Bite-Sized Books.[44]
  • 2019. Home Truths: The UK’s Chronic Housing Shortage – How it Happened, Why it Matters and How to Solve It. Biteback.[18]
  • 2017. Clean Brexit: How to Make a Success of Leaving the European Union. Biteback. (with Gerard Lyons)
  • 2012. Africa: The Last True investment Frontier. Published in The EU and Africa. Hurst & Co.[45]
  • 2006. No Choice but Compulsion: Why We Should Be Forced To Save For Old Age. Published in Defusing the Pension Time Bomb. Stockholm Network.[46]
  • 1998. Lessons from Attempted Macroeconomic Stabilisations in Russia. Social Market Foundation/Centre for Transition Economies. (with Robert Skidelsky)[47]
  • 1997. Investment Disincentives in Russia. Communist Economies & Economic Transformation. (with Pavel Teplukhin)[12]
  • 1997. Consumer Price Reforms & Safety Nets in Transition Economies. Published in Fiscal Policy and Economic Reform: Essays in Honor of Vito Tanzi, Blejer M. & T. Ter-Minassian. Routledge (with Ehtisham Ahmad)[48]
  • 1995. Russia's New Parliament: A Business Analysis. Economist Intelligence Unit.[49]
  • 1994. Europe Isn’t Working – Active Labour Market Policies Across the EU. Institute of Community Studies. (with Frank Field)[50]
  • 1993. Beyond Unemployment. Social Market Foundation. (with Robert Skidelsky)[51]
  • 1993. Another Great Depression: Historical Lessons for the 1990s. Social Market Foundation. (with Robert Skidelsky)[52]

Selected filmography

Presenter

  • 2021. Britain's £400bn Covid Bill – Who Will Pay? Dispatches. Channel 4.[53]
  • 2020. Britain's Train Hell. Dispatches. Channel 4.[54]
  • 2019. Britain's New-Build Scandal. Dispatches. Channel 4.[55]
  • 2019. HS2: The Great Train Robbery. Dispatches. Channel 4.[56]
  • 2018. Carillion: How to Lose Seven Billion Pounds. Dispatches. Channel 4.[57]
  • 2016. Britain's Home-Building Scandal. Dispatches. Channel 4.[58]
  • 2013. Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction? BBC Radio 4.[59]
  • 2007. NHS – Where Did All the Money Go? Dispatches. Channel 4.[60]
  • 2006. Public Service, Private Profit. Dispatches. Channel 4.[61]
  • 2006. Whose Pension Are You Paying? 30 Minutes. Channel 4.[62]
  • 2004. How Safe Is Your Pension? 30 Minutes. Channel 4.[63]

Producer

  • 2020. Neither Confirm Nor Deny.[64]

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  3. ^ "Telegraph Economic Commentator: Liam Halligan". Sunday Telegraph. 14 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Press Gazette: British Press Award Winners, 2007". Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Planet Normal". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Does Johnson have the guts to tackle the rigged housing market described by Halligan?". Conservative Home. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Governors". John Lyon. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Antonian Magazine: Michaelmas 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
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  20. ^ "Land-Reform Fight About Votes | News". The Moscow Times Archive. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
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  54. ^ "Britain's Train Hell: Dispatches". Channel 4. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
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  56. ^ "HS2: The Great Train Robbery: Channel 4 Dispatches | Channel 4". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
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