David McWilliams Economist, Journalist, Broadcaster and Best Selling Author
David is one of Ireland’s most respected commentators, beginning his career as the youngest economic advisor in the Maastrict Treaty negotiation team, to becoming Ireland’s best selling non-fiction author. As Irelands leading economist he is a regular contributor radio and TV on the current economic trends, he currently writes a column for the Sunday Business Post and the Irish Independent and author of the Best Selling book ‘The Popes Children’ – a unique and brilliant survey of Ireland today. Most recently David has brought economics to the national theatre with his one-man-show “Outsiders” – a unique partnership with the Abbey Theatre.
David was nominated by the World Economic Forum at Davos as one of the young global leaders of 2007. This honour is bestowed each year by the World Economic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top 250 young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, their commitment to society and their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.
David has built a cast iron reputation in Irish finance, economics and politics as being an uncompromising thinker, fiercely independent and unforgivingly analytical in the way he looks at this country.
David has interviewed some of the most influential and thought provoking characters of our age. From Henry Kissinger on America's place in the world to Mikhail Gorbachev on love and loss, Rudi Guilianni on crime and to Hillary Clinton on the "great right wing conspiracy".
David regularly speaks to national and international corporate audiences highlighting the most important economic issues for organisations and accurately forecasting events and their repercussions.
Some of the organisations that have engaged David include: KPMG, Gallagher Group, Conatus Capital Management MP, Chamber of Commerce, IPPA, Docklands Authority, DAA, Diageo, Canada Life, Ulster Bank, IPPN, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Intertrade Ireland, Invest NI, Oracle, Hibernian, Irish Wind Energy Association, European Foundation, Cork City Council etc
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Testimonials
"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"
Mahmood Al Aradi, SEVP - Financial Markets Division, National Bank of Abu Dhabi - 1st March 2012
"I would like to thank David for speaking at the event. His contribution very much helped to ensure a successful conference that has since been the focus of a great deal of positive feedback from the participants"
Venessa Heywood, Conference Director, IIR Abu Dhabi - 1st March 2012
"The conference in Rome was indeed a success and David's speech added great value to our plenary session"
Olivier Bedois, Director - Marketing & Communication, SDV - 13th February 2012
"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."
Debbie McDonald, Marketing Executive, Actavis Ireland, October 2011
"The entire audience was pleasantly shocked to see an economist could be so connected with reality and also were delighted that he delivered a clear message that we can control our destiny despite all that is going on around us especially sales leaders and business owners (who were the audience). The overall feedback was very positive and David was rated as a well worthwhile speaker and very relevant to the theme of the Conference which was Lets Get Leinster Selling. We would certainly hire David again for future conferences and would also recommend him to other event organisers." Charlie Mernagh, Managing Director, Ask Solutions, September 2011
"David's relaxed, yet confident style, coupled with the ability to debate with him and frankly discuss matters of huge importance, both to our advisers and their brokers, was really well received. We consider this small event for our key clients a great success."
David Walls, Axa Financial, June 2011
"On behalf of the board and the members of the FPP I would like to thank you most sincerely for chairing the FPP Annual conference in the Westbury Hotel, Dublin on February 25th. YOur expert contribution on the day was much respected by both speakers and delegates to make the conference a great success."
Lionel McCarthy, CEO, Forum on Public Procurement in Ireland
"The Event went really well last night, we were delighted with David, he was a delight to deal with and an excellent and very entertaining speaker. He related very well with the audience, he was enjoyable to listen to and very insightful" Nuala Martyn, Financial Solution Skillnet
"Thanks for your support in securing David McWilliams for our conference. He was fantastic and has had superb feedback!" Geraldine D’Arcy, Irish Primary Principals’ Network
"On behalf of the chairman and the national Council of ISME may I thank you very much for your excellent and valuable contribution to our national conference, it was very well received" Mark Fielding, Chief Executive, ISME, The Independent Business organisation.
"I am writing to thank you on my own behalf and on the behalf of Cork city Council and the University of Ulster for your participation in the recent conference of the Isles. We have received an amazing number of letters and emails congratulating the conference on the quality of the speakers and their presentations" Stephen Kearney, Director Housing and Community Cork City Council
"We were most fortunate in having you as our guest speaker on the occasion of this celebration. It was a great success and we were thrilled with the feedback from our guests. All in attendance found you most entertaining and some people were talking about you for days afterwards…again David, thank you very much and continued success for the future." Conor McCarthy and David Kiely, Directors Jennings O’Donovan & Partners Consulting Engineers
"Provocative, entertaining, stimulating------A man who dares to differ---That’s our David" Frank Mc Donagh, Commercial Branch Manager, Bank of Ireland
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