Donal Palcic

Biography

Donal Palcic is a Lecturer in Economics. His primary area of research is in public sector economics with a particular focus on infrastructure policy, public enterprises, privatisation and public-private partnerships. Donal has co-authored a book on the Irish privatisation experience and has also published a number of refereed journal articles and book chapters on the same topic. He is a member of the Privatisation and Public Private Partnerships (P4) research group based in UL. Donal has also discussed privatisation-related issues both in the press and on national radio on various occasions (see P4 media page for details). In 2016, Donal spent five months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Cornell Program for Infrastructure Policy in the Department of Policy Analysis & Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University (USA). Donal has over ten years lecturing experience and currently teaches economics on UL's Executive MBA programme, as well as the MSc. in Economic Analysis and the BBS programmes. He also has considerable international teaching experience, most recently delivering an MBA module at Grenoble Ecole de Management in December 2016 and a module on Ecole de Management Strasbourg's International Summer School in June 2016. In June 2016 Donal was appointed as Assistant Dean International for the Kemmy Business School with responsibility for the development of international partnerships and various other internationalisation activities.

Research Interest

Economics.