Dr Micheál Collins is an economist, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, and Head of Social Policy at University College Dublin.
His research interests and publications are in the areas of income distribution and poverty, taxation, fiscal welfare, pensions, economic evaluation and public policy. He was a member of Ireland’s Commission on Taxation (2008-2009) and the Irish Government’s Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (2011-2014). He served as the external member of the Irish Government’s interdepartmental group examining the reform of Ireland’s income tax and social insurance system (2017-18). He is a former member of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (2015-2021) and a former chair of the Irish Social Policy Association (ISPA) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA) of Ireland.
For more information and publications see: https://people.ucd.ie/micheal.collins