Dr. Mary O Mahony

Biography

Mary O’Mahony is a Professor of Applied Economics at King's Business School, King's College London. Her research interests include measuring and explaining international differences in productivity, technology growth, and the impacts of human capital formation on productivity and public services, particularly in health and education. She joined King’s in 2013 after serving as a Professor at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Currently, she is also a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London. In recent years, her research has been primarily funded through European Commission coordinated FP7 projects such as SERVICEGAP, and she has served as the academic coordinator for the FP6 EU KLEMS project. Her notable contributions include her Research Excellence Framework 2021 impact case study titled 'Economic Data: Developing New Techniques to Measure Economy Accurately.' Some of her recent publications examine the relationship between labor skills and economic productivity in the digital age, and she actively participates in discussions about policy-making as it pertains to economic statistics in the UK and Ireland.

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