Philip R. Lane is Whately Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin. He is Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the ; he is an ex-officio member of the General Board and steering committee of the ESRB. He is also Director of the International Macroeconomics and Finance Programme at the Centre for ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Policy Research (CEPR).
He received his PhD in ¸£Àûµ¼º½s from Harvard in 1995 and was Assistant Professor of ¸£Àûµ¼º½s and International Affairs at Columbia University during 1995-1997 before returning to Dublin.
His research interests include financial globalisation, macroeconomics of exchange rates and capital flows, macroeconomic policy design and European monetary integration. His work has been published in the American ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Review, Review of ¸£Àûµ¼º½s and Statistics, Journal of ¸£Àûµ¼º½ Perspectives, Journal of International ¸£Àûµ¼º½s, NBER Macroeconomics Annual and many other journals.
In 2001, he was the inaugural recipient of the German Bernacer Award in Monetary ¸£Àûµ¼º½s for outstanding contributions to European monetary economics; in 2010, he was co-recipient of the Bhagwati Prize from the Journal of International ¸£Àûµ¼º½s. He has also acted as an academic consultant for the European Central Bank, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, OECD, Asian Development Bank and a number of national central banks. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy.