Conor O'Toole

Dr. Conor O'Toole is a Associate Research Professor at The Economic & Social Research Institute.
He is part of the Economic and Social Research Institute.
In his current role, he will have responsibility for research on housing and household financing, enterprise development and corporate finance and banking.
This will include research on access to finance issues and understanding financial vulnerabilities.
He will also contribute to the ESRI’s macroeconomic forecasting group as a contributing author to the Quarterly Economic Commentary.
Dr. O'Toole previously held the position of Manager – Real-Financial Linkages Team and Senior Economist at the Financial Stability Division of the Central Bank of Ireland.
At the Central Bank of Ireland, Conor worked extensively on macroprudential policy issues with specific focus on the mortgage market.
He also worked on broader issues regarding the surveillance of household and corporate financing vulnerabilities.
Dr. O'Toole was a member of the European Central Bank’s Macroprudential Policy Group Taskforce on Operationalising Macroprudential Research.
He was also a member of the Central Bank of Ireland’s Taskforce on Crowdfunding and the Taskforce on Mortgage Interest Rate Pricing and Structure as well as representing the Central Bank on the Government SME State Bodies Group.
He was the founding Editor of the Central Banks’ Household Credit Market Report.
Before joining the Central Bank, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the ESRI and as an economist for IBM's Global Centre for Economic Analysis, London Economics and Indecon Economic Consultants.
He also worked as a PhD researcher at the United Nations University —World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland.
He holds a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.