Philip O’Connell is Director of the Geary Institute for Public Policy and Professor of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin. He has a long-held belief in the importance of evidence for policy making, having spent two decades at the Economic & Social Research Institute before coming to UCD. Most of his work focuses on the labour market and on migration. He has published extensively on working conditions and workplace practices, on wage inequality, on the transition from unemployment to work, on workplace training, and on the experience of migrant workers in Ireland. His latest book, edited with UCD colleagues William K. Roche and Andrea Prothero, Austerity and Recovery in Ireland: Europe’s Poster Child and the Great Recession, is published by Oxford University Press. He has served as a consultant to the European Commission and the OECD, and he is National Coordinator of the European Social Survey in Ireland. He was a member of the former Irish Labour Market Council.