Michael O’Sullivan

Michael O’Sullivan is an author, economist and investor. He has twenty years’ experience in global financial markets, most recently as Chief Investment Officer in the International Wealth Management Division of Credit Suisse, where he worked for twelve years. He now advises a number of asset management and fintech companies (notably Moonfare). 

He is also an senior adviser at WestExec, and a board member of the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation. 

He is also the author of ‘The Levelling’ (PublicAffairs), which outlines what’s next in politics, economics, finance and geopolitics in the post globalization era.  Recently he has co-authored ‘L’Accord du Peuple‘ (Calmann-Levy) and made the BBC 4 radio documentary Waking up to World Debt. 

He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the New Economy, and a Forbes contributor, and a speaker at the 2020 TED Talk conference and also at the Stormont TEDx on the topic of restoring democracy.

He studied in Cork and received MPhil and DPhil degrees at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught finance and economics at Oxford University and Princeton University.