12th February 2010
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Nice potted biography from the IT. An insider's insider if ever there was one! Quote:
Fifty-five years old, Bacon grew up in Drumcondra and attended Coláiste Mhuire in Parnell Square. However, he and his wife set up the family home in Wexford, where they raised a son and daughter. He is now a grandfather.
He entered the Dept of Finance in 1975, but a couple of years later moved on to a role in Paris with the OECD. He subsequently worked in the Economic and Social Research Institute, the National Planning Board, and the World Bank before in the mid-1980s joining Goodbody Stockbrokers as chief economist. By the early 1990s he had become managing director.
There was then a short stint as economic adviser in the Department of Finance when Bertie Ahern was the minister, only for that to be cut short by the collapse of the Fianna Fáil/Labour coalition. Nevertheless, he and Ahern remain friends.
He then went out on his own as Peter Bacon and Associates. In fact, the “associates” aspect is misleading, because he is a lone operator. In the sharkpool of economic consultancy, says one acquaintance, he knew it would be tough enough to earn a living for himself, never mind earning one for anyone else.
In the past decade or so he has been commissioned to write reports on a range of interests, including the marine sector, the M1 interchanges at Drogheda, the market for apartments in Dublin’s city centre, forestry, biotechnology, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, a third-level college in Wexford and the meat industry. He calculated the heavy financial cost of road deaths. He was asked by the Moriarty Tribunal to examine the competition that led to the awarding of a mobile licence to Esat Digifone, the consortium found by Denis O’Brien
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