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Liam Halligan was born on 29 April, 1969 in London, England, is an English economist and journalist (born 1969). Discover Liam Halligan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Occupation Economist, journalist, broadcaster
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 29 April, 1969
Birthday 29 April
Birthplace London, England
Nationality London, England

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1969

Liam James Halligan (born 29 April 1969) is a British economist, journalist, author and broadcaster.

He is currently economics and business editor at GB News.

1990

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.

He also wrote about the Soviet Union for The Wall Street Journal and Euromoney.

1992

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.

1994

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.

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.

He also helped to establish the Russian-European Centre for Economic Policy, an inter-governmental policy advisory group.

1996

In 1996, Halligan was appointed political correspondent at the Financial Times.

1997

Since 1997, Halligan has sat on the Policy Advisory Board of The Social Market Foundation.

He covered the 1997 general election and Good Friday Agreement as part of a team led by political editor Robert Peston.

1999

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.

2003

Since 2003, Halligan has written a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph.

He also presents The Telegraph's weekly Planet Normal podcast.

Halligan was born to an Irish family and grew up in Kingsbury, London.

Halligan attended the John Lyon School on a scholarship, where he became head boy.

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.

2004

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.

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.

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.

Halligan has also written for New Statesman, Prospect, and UnHerd.

He also writes for The Spectator and The Sun.

He has presented shows on LBC and BBC Radio Five Live.

2006

He went on to become economics correspondent at Channel 4 News, where he remained until 2006.

In 2006, he was appointed economics editor at The Sunday Telegraph.

2008

From 2008 to 2010, he wrote a monthly column for GQ.

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.

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

2010

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.

2017

In 2017, Halligan was invited to join an expert advisory committee at the Department for International Trade.

He has also testified before a number of Parliamentary committees.

2019

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

When the BBC axed the programme in 2019, Halligan said the corporation had made a "blindingly obvious mistake".

2020

In April 2020, he called for the Government to build more social housing.

In February 2021, he appeared before the Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee on quantitative easing.

In 2020, he was shortlisted by the Government for the post of Downing Street TV Press Secretary.