Jim Power

Jim Power is a self-employed economist and podcaster, previously Chief Economist at Friends First, a subsidiary of insurance multinational Achmea.

Power attended University College Dublin (UCD). He has worked for the Bank of Ireland as its Chief Economist, and for Allied Irish Banks as its Treasury Economist. He teaches at Dublin City University and at UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. He also edits Friends First's Quarterly Economic Outlook.

Power later took to writing about the financial crisis. His first book, Picking Up the Pieces, appeared in 2009. Dublin Central TD Paschal Donohoe said it was a "humane thought provoking book."

Since February 2021 he has been hosting his own podcast The Other Hand with fellow economist Chris Johns.