Jim O'Leary has been appointed as senior economic advisor in the budget, taxation and economic division in the Department of Finance.
The position reports to Michael McGrath, the assistant secretary in the Budget, Taxation and Economic Division.
Mr O'Leary was chief economist at Davy stockbrokers between 1987 and 2001. Since then he has been a senior economics lecturer at NUI Maynooth.
He was also a non-executive director of AIB between 200 and 2008, and of its Polish subsidiary, Bank Zachodny.
He was also a non-executive director of Aer Lingus between 1995 and 2000, and has also served on the board of Gresham hotels.
