Patrick Honohan
Patrick Honohan | |
|---|---|
| Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland | |
| In office 26 September 2009 – 25 November 2015 | |
| Taoiseach | Brian Cowen Enda Kenny |
| Preceded by | John Hurley |
| Succeeded by | Philip R. Lane |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Patrick Honohan 9 October 1949 Dublin, Ireland |
| Spouse | Iseult Lawlor (m. 1971) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | |
Patrick Honohan (born 9 October 1949) is an Irish economist and public servant who served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland from 2009 to 2015 (and as such was a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank). He has been a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2016.
His period in office as Governor was mainly focused on resolving the Post-2008 Irish banking crisis.