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Marc was born in Dubln in December 1969 and lived in Erlangen Germany until 1975. In 1993 he started work in Carr Communications before winning both the prestigious Third Secretary and Administrative Officer competitions. After a brief stint on the Anglo-Irish desk as a diplomat, he worked for three years as an economist with the Department of Finance, taking a master's degree (M Econ Sci) out of UCD by night. In 1997 he joined the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, working in its Convergence unit, and in both Monetary Policy Division and Fiscal Policy Division. In 2002 he obtained the prestigious Advanced Studies Programme qualification from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel. He returned to Dublin and took up a scholarship with Ireland's leading Smurfit MBA programme. A week before finishing that, he was offered and took the position of Economics Editor of the Irish Times. His election coverage was ground breaking and in 2007 he joined Newstalk as its economics editor and since August 2009 presents his own current affairs programme "Coleman at Large" on Wednesday night from 10pm. He has authored two bestselling books; "The Best is Yet to Come" and "Back from the Brink". He is also a prominent columnist with the Sunday Independent and a prominent public speaker. He is married to Aoife Ni Scolai and lives in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.

 

Current:

• Newstalk's Economics Editor and presenter of "Coleman at Large"
• Sunday Independent Columnist (recent article on negative equity - scroll to bottom)
• Author of bestselling and critically acclaimed books:
  • "Back from the Brink" (2009) 
  • "The Best is Yet to Come" (2007)

• Prominent keynote speaker on economic, business and political issues. See "Reviews as Speaker" section of this site, & also link below:

  http://www.speakersolutions.ie/Marc_Coleman/Default.812.html

Formerly:

• Irish Times Economics Editor 2005 - 2007
• Scholarship MBA, Smurfit Business School 2004/5
• European Central Bank economist 1997-2004
• Department of Finance economist 1994-1997
• Carr Communications

Qualifications:

• BA, Trinity College
• M Econ Sci, UCD
• ASP Kiel Institute World Economics
• MBA Smurfit Business School
• Econometrics certificate London School of Economics

Has been published in...

• Sunday Independent
• Irish Times 
• Financial Times
• The Scotsman 
• ESRI's Quarterly Economic Commentary link to paper
• Studies (Jesuit magazine)
• Dublin Economic Workshop paper
• Prague 2004 Central Bank conference paper
  
  ... and many more publications

Author of

• "The Best is Yet to Come", bestseller which sold out in four weeks and was in top 20 in Ireland's major bookstores