Brian Nolan

Brian Nolan is a Professor of Social Policy Emeritus at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. From 2014 to until his retirement in 2024, he was the Director of the Inequality Research Programme at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Nolan was previously principal of the College of Human Sciences and professor of public policy at University College Dublin. He is an economist by training, with a doctorate from the London School of Economics. He has been centrally involved in a range of collaborative cross-country research networks and projects, including the Growing Inequalities’ Impacts (GINI) multi-country research project on inequalities and their impacts. He co-edited The Handbook of Economic Inequality (2008), The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income (2013), Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives (2014), Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries’ Experiences (2014), and Children of Austerity: The Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries (2017), and with Christopher T. Whelan co-authored Poverty and Deprivation in Europe (2011), all published by Oxford University Press.