Cathal O’Donoghue has been the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of Public and Social Policy at NUI Galway since 2016. Previously, he served as Head of Teagasc’s Rural Economy and Development Programme from 2005, and was a member of Teagasc’s research directorate board. He also served on the Fund Council of CGIAR, a $1 billion international agri-food research organisation, from 2014-2016.

From 2012-2014, he was CEO of the Irish Government’s Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, and Chairman of the Irish Sport Horse Strategy Committee from 2013-2015. He was President of the International Microsimulation Association from 2011-2015 and is a member of the UK Agricultural Economics Society Executive. A graduate of UCC, O’Donoghue is trained as a Statistician and Economist, with postgraduate degrees from Oxford, UCD, LSE, and Warwick. He has worked at ESRI, the UK Government Economics Service, University of Cambridge, and NUI Galway. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from LSE. His research focuses on policy simulation models, with adjunct roles at the University of Maastricht and UCD. He has published over 150 research papers and supervised 25+ PhDs.

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