Liam Halligan

Halligan was born to an Irish family and grew up in Kingsbury, northwest London.{{Cite web|title=Does Johnson have the guts to tackle the rigged housing market described by Halligan?|url=https://www.conservativehome.com/book-reviews/2020/01/does-johnson-have-the-guts-to-tackle-the-rigged-housing-market-described-by-halligan.html|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Conservative Home|date=18 January 2020 |language=en-US}} Halligan attended the John Lyon School in Harrow-on-the-Hill on a scholarship, where he became head boy.{{Cite web|title=Governors|url=https://www.johnlyon.org/school-life/school-staff/governors/|access-date=2021-06-03|website=John Lyon|language=en-GB}}

The first person in his family to attend university, he graduated with a first-class degree in economics from the University of Warwick and went on to gain an MPhil in economics from St Antony's College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Antonian Magazine: Michaelmas 2010|url=http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/Antonian_Michaelmas2010.pdf|accessdate=20 January 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224081959/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/Antonian_Michaelmas2010.pdf|archivedate=24 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}{{Cite web|last=Corner|first=Speakers|title=Liam Halligan – Keynote Speakers {{!}} Speakers Corner|url=https://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/speaker/liam-halligan|access-date=2021-06-03|website=www.speakerscorner.co.uk|language=en}}

In 1992, following graduation, Halligan joined his former university tutor Robert Skidelsky at The Social Market Foundation, the Westminster-based think tank. He 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.

In 1994, Halligan joined the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and moved to Moscow. In Moscow he shared a flat with Dominic Cummings.[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/exclusive-dominic-cummings-s-secret-links-to-russia Spectator article]

Together with other economists from LSE, Oxford and Harvard, he co-founded Russian Economic Trends, an academic journal that published macroeconomic data, analysis and commentary on Russia.{{Cite web|title=The financial meltdown: an interview with Liam Halligan|url=http://www.emeraldpublishing.co.uk/learning/management_thinking/interviews/halligan.htm|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.emeraldpublishing.co.uk}} He also helped to establish the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, an inter-governmental policy advisory group.{{Cite journal|last1=Halligan|first1=Liam|last2=Teplukhin|first2=Pavel|date=1996-03-01|title=Investment disincentives in Russia|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14631379608427843|journal=Communist Economies and Economic Transformation|volume=8|issue=1|pages=29–51|doi=10.1080/14631379608427843|issn=1351-4393|url-access=subscription}}

Since 1997, Halligan has sat on the Policy Advisory Board of The Social Market Foundation.{{Cite web|title=Our People|url=http://www.smf.co.uk/people/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Social Market Foundation|language=en-GB}} In 2010, he became a founder member of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), an ESRC-funded research centre at the University of Warwick.{{Cite web|title=People|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/people/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=warwick.ac.uk}}

In 2017, Halligan was invited to join an expert advisory committee at the Department for International Trade.{{Cite news|last=Zeffman|first=Henry|title=Trade guru Shanker Singham quits over role at lobbying firm|newspaper=The Times|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trade-guru-shanker-singham-quits-over-role-at-lobbying-firm-m5wwjh5hw|access-date=2021-06-04|issn=0140-0460}} He has also testified before a number of Parliamentary committees. In April 2020, he called for the Government to build more social housing.{{Cite web|title=Building more social housing – Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee – House of Commons|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmcomloc/173/17315.htm|access-date=2021-06-04|website=publications.parliament.uk}} In February 2021, he appeared before the Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee on quantitative easing.{{Cite web|title=Committees – UK Parliament|url=https://committees.parliament.uk/event/3705/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=committees.parliament.uk|language=en}}

In 2019, he published Home Truths, which argues that the UK's housing shortage deprives vulnerable families of decent social housing.

In 2020, he was shortlisted by the Government for the post of Downing Street TV Press Secretary.{{Cite web|date=2020-10-14|title=Politico London Playbook: Short circuit – Halligan in No. 10 – Times pol ed runners and riders|url=https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/politico-london-playbook-short-circuit-halligan-in-no-10-times-pol-ed-runners-and-riders/|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Politico|language=en-US}}

In the early 1990s, Halligan wrote a weekly column for The Moscow Times and covered Russian economics and politics for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit.{{Cite web|title=Land-Reform Fight About Votes {{!}} News|url=http://oldtmt.vedomosti.ru/news/article/tmt/328136.html|access-date=2021-06-03|website=The Moscow Times Archive}} He also wrote about the Soviet Union for The Wall Street Journal and Euromoney.{{Cite web|last=Volk|first=Yevgeny|title=The Heritage Foundation|url=https://www.heritage.org/node/20025/print-display|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208204329/https://www.heritage.org/node/20025/print-display|url-status=unfit|archive-date=8 December 2019|access-date=2021-06-03|website=The Heritage Foundation|language=en}}

In 1996, Halligan was appointed political correspondent at the Financial Times. He covered the 1997 general election and Good Friday Agreement as part of a team led by political editor Robert Peston.{{Cite web|date=2013-08-09|title=James Harding: how the BBC's news chief started life in the FT fast track|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/09/james-harding-bbc-ft-fast-track|access-date=2021-06-03|website=The Guardian|language=en}} He went on to become economics correspondent at Channel 4 News, where he remained until 2006.

From 1999 to 2002, while at Channel 4 News, Halligan wrote a weekly economics column for Sunday Business before moving his column to The Sunday Telegraph.{{Cite web|title=Iain Dale All Talk: Liam Halligan on Apple Podcasts|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/liam-halligan/id1475913485?i=1000477362750|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Apple Podcasts|language=en-US}} In 2006, he was appointed economics editor at The Sunday Telegraph.{{Cite web|title=Channel 4's Halligan off to Sunday Telegraph|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jul/19/sundaytelegraph.pressandpublishing|website=The Guardian|date=19 July 2006}} From 2008 to 2010, he wrote a monthly column for GQ.{{Cite web|title=Liam Halligan|url=https://www.connectspeakersbureau.com/speaker/liam-halligan/|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Connect Speakers Bureau|language=en-GB}}

Halligan was a founding panellist on the daily television discussion show CNN Talk. He was a regular panellist on This Week, presented by Andrew Neil.{{Cite web|title=BBC One – This Week, 19/07/2018, Austin and friends review political year – part one|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06f82tt|access-date=2021-06-03|website=BBC|date=20 July 2018 |language=en-GB}} When the BBC axed the programme in 2019, Halligan said the corporation had made a "blindingly obvious mistake".{{Cite news|date=2019-02-15|title=BBC's This Week to end as host Andrew Neil steps down|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47251264|access-date=2021-06-03}}

Since 2004, he has also regularly presented standalone documentaries on Channel 4, including for Dispatches, and sits on the jury of the Royal Television Society's Specialist Journalist award.{{Cite web|title=RTS Television Journalism Awards 2021|url=https://rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/imce/tvj_awards_2021_-_programme_0.pdf}}

In March 2021, 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.{{Cite web|date=2021-05-21|title=GB News reveals line-up of shows with Andrew Neil to host primetime evening news programme|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/gb-news-line-up-first-shows-andrew-neil-running-order-1014532|access-date=2021-06-03|website=inews.co.uk|language=en}}

From September 2021 to September 2022, Halligan presented his own show on GB News, On The Money, which ran for an hour every weekday and focused on financial topics. On 1 September 2022, it was announced that the show was to be axed, with Halligan having an increased presence on other GB News programmes, centering around the Cost of living crisis. In June 2024, Halligan departed GB News.

Halligan has also written for New Statesman, Prospect, and UnHerd.{{cite news|last=Halligan|first=Liam|date=24 October 2005|title=The Debt Pandemic|newspaper=New Statesman|location=London|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/node/151826|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201215611/https://www.newstatesman.com/node/151826|archivedate=1 February 2014}}{{cite web|title=Prospect Author: Liam Halligan|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/Liam-Halligan/#.Ut5hZaU4nZp|publisher=Prospect Magazine|accessdate=21 January 2014}} He also writes for The Spectator and The Sun. He has presented shows on LBC and BBC Radio Five Live.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-09|title=LBC to broadcast election night on air and video|url=https://radioworks.co.uk/lbc-election-night-2019/|access-date=2021-06-03|website=RadioWorks|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 5 live – Wake Up to Money, 20/08/2007|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007wcxg|access-date=2021-06-03|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}

Between 2008 and 2013, Halligan was Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management, an institutional asset management focussed on the Soviet Union.

Since 2014, Halligan has been a shareholder at Bne IntelliNews, where he is also Editor-at-Large.{{Cite web|title=About Us {{!}} bne IntelliNews|url=https://www.intellinews.com/about/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.intellinews.com|language=en}}

He has two daughters and one son with his former partner, the journalist and author Lucy Ward.{{Cite web|date=2010-09-17|title=Our Russian adventure|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/18/moscow-russia-children-schools|access-date=2021-06-04|website=The Guardian|language=en}}

Halligan is a citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland. In 2012, he was invited to join the Global Irish Network, an advisory board of Irish nationals living outside Ireland.{{cite web|title=Global Irish Network Forum 2013 – List of Participants|url=http://www.globalirishforum.ie/2013Participants.aspx|accessdate=20 January 2014}} He is also a regular panellist at the Kilkenomics Festival.{{Cite web|title=Liam Halligan – Kilkenomics Festival|url=https://kilkenomics.com/speaker/liam-halligan-2/|access-date=2021-06-04|language=en-US}}

In 2016, he was appointed a Governor at John Lyon School.{{Cite web|title=Governors|url=https://www.johnlyon.org/school-life/school-staff/governors/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=John Lyon|language=en-GB}} His hobbies include guitar, double bass, traditional Irish music, choral music, film, rowing, and sailing.

• 1998. Business Broadcaster of the Year. The Wincott Foundation Awards.{{Cite web|title=The Wincott Foundation Awards|url=https://www.wincott.co.uk/awards/previous-winners.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220223639/http://www.wincott.co.uk/awards/previous-winners.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 February 2014|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.wincott.co.uk}}
• 2005. Business Broadcast Journalist of the Year. World Leadership Forum.{{Cite web|title=Liam Halligan – Knight Ayton|url=https://knightayton.co.uk/male-presenters/liam-halligan|access-date=2021-06-04|website=knightayton.co.uk|language=en-gb}}
• 2006. Business Broadcast Journalist of the Year. World Leadership Forum.
• 2007. Business Commentator of the Year. British Press Awards.{{Cite web|title=Liam Halligan|url=https://www.speakersforschools.org/speakers/liam-halligan/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Speakers for Schools|date=26 February 2020 |language=en-GB}}
• 2007. Columnist of the Year. WorkWorld Media Award.{{Cite web|title=Winners of the Workworld media awards announced {{!}} Onrec|url=https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/winners-of-the-workworld-media-awards-announced|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.onrec.com}}

• 1999. Programme of the Year – Channel 4 News (Economics and Business). The Industrial Society Awards.
• 2002. UK Current Affairs Programme of the Year – Channel 4 News (Economics and Business). The Wincott Foundation Awards.
• 2002. UK Current Affairs Programme of the Year – Channel 4 News (Economics and Business). WorkWorld Media Award.{{Cite web|last=Corner|first=Speakers|title=Liam Halligan – Keynote Speakers {{!}} Speakers Corner|url=https://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/speaker/liam-halligan|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.speakerscorner.co.uk|language=en}}
• 2007. UK Current Affairs Programme of the Year – Dispatches. The Wincott Foundation Awards.
• 2018. UK Current Affairs Programme of the Year – Dispatches. The Wincott Foundation Awards.

• 2020. Groupthink, Brexit and the Future of the BBC. Published in Is The BBC Still In Peril – And Does It Deserve To Be? Bite-Sized Books.{{Cite web|title=Is the BBC Still in Peril? {{!}} Bite-Sized Books|url=https://www.bite-sizedbooks.com/product/is-the-bbc-still-in-peril/|access-date=2021-06-04|language=en-GB}}
• 2019. Home Truths: The UK’s Chronic Housing Shortage – How it Happened, Why it Matters and How to Solve It. Biteback.{{Cite web|title=Home Truths|url=https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/home-truths|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.bitebackpublishing.com|language=en}}
• 2017. Clean Brexit: How to Make a Success of Leaving the European Union. Biteback. (with Gerard Lyons)
• 2012. Africa: The Last True investment Frontier. Published in The EU and Africa. Hurst & Co.{{Cite book|title=The EU and Africa|publisher=Hurst & Co.|year=2012}}
• 2006. No Choice but Compulsion: Why We Should Be Forced To Save For Old Age. Published in Defusing the Pension Time Bomb. Stockholm Network.{{Cite book|title=Defusing the Pension Time Bomb|publisher=Stockholm Network|year=2006}}
• 1998. Lessons from Attempted Macroeconomic Stabilisations in Russia. Social Market Foundation/Centre for Transition Economies. (with Robert Skidelsky){{Cite book|title=Lessons from Attempted Macroeconomic Stabilisations in Russia|publisher=Social Market Foundation|year=1998}}
• 1997. Investment Disincentives in Russia. Communist Economies & Economic Transformation. (with Pavel Teplukhin)
• 1997. Consumer Price Reforms & Safety Nets in Transition Economies. Published in Fiscal Policy and Economic Reform: Essays in Honor of Vito Tanzi, Blejer M. & T. Ter-Minassian. Routledge (with Ehtisham Ahmad){{Cite book|last1=Blejer|first1=Mario I.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZmFAgAAQBAJ&dq=Liam+halligan+and+ehtisham+ahmad&pg=PR8|title=Fiscal Policy and Economic Reforms: Essays in Honour of Vito Tanzi|last2=Ter-Minassian|first2=Teresa|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-77529-3|language=en}}
• 1995. Russia's New Parliament: A Business Analysis. Economist Intelligence Unit.{{Cite book|title=Russia's New Parliament: A Business Analysis|publisher=The Economist|year=1995}}
• 1994. Europe Isn’t Working – Active Labour Market Policies Across the EU. Institute of Community Studies. (with Frank Field){{Cite book|last1=Field|first1=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqQFAQAACAAJ|title=Europe Isn't Working|last2=Halligan|first2=Liam|last3=Owen|first3=Matthew|date=1994|publisher=Institute of Community Studies|isbn=978-0-9523355-0-4|language=en}}
• 1993. Beyond Unemployment. Social Market Foundation. (with Robert Skidelsky){{Cite book|title=Beyond Unemployment|publisher=Social Market Foundation|year=1993}}
• 1993. Another Great Depression: Historical Lessons for the 1990s. Social Market Foundation. (with Robert Skidelsky){{Cite book|last1=Skidelsky|first1=Robert Jacob Alexander|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQQFHQAACAAJ|title=Another Great Depression?: Historical Lessons for the 1990s|last2=Halligan|first2=Liam|date=1993|publisher=Social Market Foundation|language=en}}

• 2021. Britain's £400bn Covid Bill – Who Will Pay? Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Britain's £400bn Covid Bill: Dispatches|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-400bn-covid-bill-dispatches|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Channel 4|language=en}}
• 2020. Britain's Train Hell. Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Britain's Train Hell: Dispatches|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-train-hell-dispatches|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Channel 4|language=en}}
• 2019. Britain's New-Build Scandal. Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Britain's New Build Scandal: Channel 4 Dispatches {{!}} Channel 4|url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/britains-new-build-scandal-channel-4-dispatches|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.channel4.com}}
• 2019. HS2: The Great Train Robbery. Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=HS2: The Great Train Robbery: Channel 4 Dispatches {{!}} Channel 4|url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/hs2-great-train-robbery-channel-4-dispatches|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.channel4.com}}
• 2018. Carillion: How to Lose Seven Billion Pounds. Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=How to Lose Seven Billion Pounds: Dispatches|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-lose-seven-billion-pounds-dispatches|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Channel 4|language=en}}
• 2016. Britain's Home-Building Scandal. Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Britain's New Build Scandal: Dispatches|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-new-build-scandal-dispatches|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Channel 4|language=en}}
• 2013. Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction? BBC Radio 4.{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 – Analysis, Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03dfpjt|access-date=2021-06-04|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}
• 2007. NHS – Where Did All the Money Go? Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Channel 4 – News – Dispatches – NHS: Where Did All The Money Go?|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/nhs+where+did+all+the+money+go/267598.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604102713/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ayZ2scY3RUcJ:www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/nhs+where+did+all+the+money+go/267598.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2021|access-date=2021-06-04}}
• 2006. Public Service, Private Profit. Dispatches. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Channel 4 – News – Dispatches – Public Service, Private Profit|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/public+service+private+profit/158060.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202194615/http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/public+service+private+profit/158060.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 February 2014|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.channel4.com}}
• 2006. Whose Pension Are You Paying? 30 Minutes. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Whose pension are you paying?|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2930601/Whose-pension-are-you-paying.html|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=22 January 2006 }}
• 2004. How Safe Is Your Pension? 30 Minutes. Channel 4.{{Cite web|title=Dispatches: Is Your Pension Safe? {{!}} Channel 4|url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/dispatches-your-pension-safe|access-date=2021-06-04|website=www.channel4.com}}

• 2020. Neither Confirm Nor Deny.{{Cite web|title=Neither Confirm Nor Deny|url=https://www.docnyc.net/film/neither-confirm-nor-deny/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=DOC NYC|language=en-US}}

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