David McWilliams (economics pundit)

David McWilliams
Born	1966 (age 50–51) Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Education	Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and College of Europe, Belgium
Occupation	Journalist, broadcaster, economist
Children	2
Website	http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie

David McWilliams (born 1966) is an Irish economist, writer, broadcaster and journalist. He is a faculty member of the Trinity College, Dublin business school. McWilliams initially worked as an economist with the Central Bank of Ireland, UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris. Since 1999, he has been a broadcaster, writer, economic commentator and documentary-maker. He has written four books, The Pope's Children, The Generation Game, Follow the Money and The Good Room, writes two weekly economic columns and has made various documentaries. McWilliams is credited (by himself) with being one of the first economists to predict the 1990s boom in the Republic of Ireland's economy when working at UBS and he is arguably most famous for his predictions of an Irish property bubble building from between 2000 and 2007 which would ultimately crash.

McWilliams has coined several terms which have become part of everyday Irish speech, such as "ghost estates" and "breakfast roll man". In January 2007, McWilliams was selected as one of 250 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and is a regular in the international speaker circuit.

McWilliams was born in Dún Laoghaire in 1966 and was raised in Windsor Park, Monkstown, Dublin. His father, of Scottish descent, worked in a chemical and paint factory but was unemployed for periods while David was growing up. His Cork-born mother was a teacher. He is married to Sian Smyth, a former corporate lawyer, who is from near Belfast. They live in Dublin.

McWilliams attended Blackrock College in Dublin. He then graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a degree in economics (1988). His Masters in economics is from the College of Europe, Belgium (1989).

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