Peter Clinch is an Irish academic and economist, who has served as Chairperson of Science Foundation Ireland.
In 2002, he co-authored After the Celtic Tiger with Brendan Walsh and Frank Convery pointing out fragilities in the Irish economy in advance Ireland's economic crisis.
[1] Clinch was a critic of Irish government decisions on planning policy[2] and decentralisation during the Irish Celtic Tiger boom describing the latter as “totally inconsistent with the National Spatial Strategy" [3][4] and was said to be unenthusiastic about Ireland's social partnership model.
[8] He is Jean Monnet (Full) Professor and Chair of Public Policy at University College Dublin.
[9] He is a former Vice-President of University College Dublin UCD where he had responsibility for Innovation and Corporate Partnerships.