Liam James Halligan was born on 29 April 1969 and is a British economist, journalist, author and broadcaster.
29 Facts About Liam Halligan
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Liam Halligan was economics and business editor at GB News from its launch in June 2021 to June 2024.
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Since 2003, Halligan has written a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph.
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Liam Halligan was born to an Irish family and grew up in Kingsbury, northwest London.
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Liam Halligan attended the John Lyon School in Harrow-on-the-Hill on a scholarship, where he became head boy.
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In 1992, following graduation, Liam Halligan joined his former university tutor Robert Skidelsky at The Social Market Foundation, the Westminster-based think tank.
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Liam Halligan later worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute and in the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA, as a research economist.
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In 1994, Liam Halligan joined the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and moved to Moscow.
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Liam Halligan helped to establish the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, an inter-governmental policy advisory group.
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Since 1997, Liam Halligan has sat on the Policy Advisory Board of The Social Market Foundation.
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In 2017, Liam Halligan was invited to join an expert advisory committee at the Department for International Trade.
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Liam Halligan has testified before a number of Parliamentary committees.
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Liam Halligan wrote about the Soviet Union for The Wall Street Journal and Euromoney.
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In 1996, Liam Halligan was appointed political correspondent at the Financial Times.
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Liam Halligan covered the 1997 general election and Good Friday Agreement as part of a team led by political editor Robert Peston.
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Liam Halligan went on to become economics correspondent at Channel 4 News, where he remained until 2006.
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From 1999 to 2002, while at Channel 4 News, Liam Halligan wrote a weekly economics column for Sunday Business before moving his column to The Sunday Telegraph.
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Liam Halligan was a founding panellist on the daily television discussion show CNN Talk.
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Liam Halligan was a regular panellist on This Week, presented by Andrew Neil.
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In March 2021, Liam Halligan was named as economics and business editor at GB News and co-presenter of a daily lunchtime show with former Labour Party MP Gloria De Piero.
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From September 2021 to September 2022, Liam Halligan presented his own show on GB News, On The Money, which ran for an hour every weekday and focused on financial topics.
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On 1 September 2022, it was announced that the show was to be axed, with Liam Halligan having an increased presence on other GB News programmes, centering around the Cost of living crisis.
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Liam Halligan has presented shows on LBC and BBC Radio Five Live.
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Between 2008 and 2013, Liam Halligan was Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management, an institutional asset management focussed on the Soviet Union.
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Since 2014, Liam Halligan has been a shareholder at Bne IntelliNews, where he is Editor-at-Large.
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Liam Halligan has two daughters and one son with his former partner, the journalist and author Lucy Ward.
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Liam Halligan is a citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
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Liam Halligan is a regular panellist at the Kilkenomics Festival.
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Liam Halligan's hobbies include guitar, double bass, traditional Irish music, choral music, film, rowing, and sailing.