Professor Carol Newman

Carol Newman is a Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. She is an applied microeconomist with a particular interest in the micro-foundations of development.

She joined the Department of Economics in 2002 after completing her PhD in Trinity, and has held visiting positions at the University of Chicago (2007), the University of Copenhagen (2006; 2013), and the University of Bologna (2018).

She is a co-founder of the Trinity Impact Evaluation (TIME) Research Centre and leads research projects across sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. She is a non-resident Senior Research Fellow of the United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and a consultant to the World Bank.

She is currently Chair of the Board of Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), a Southern-led global organization dedicated to supporting development in the Global South.

National Economic Dialogue 2025