“The tension is what you crave. That’s what you’re here to do – to solve something.” This is how Larry O’Connell sums up the core work of the National Economic and Social Council (Nesc) where he has served as director for the past six years, having first joined as a senior economist in 2007. The advisory body brings together delegates from different pillars of society, along with academic experts and senior state officials, to, in the simplest terms, bang heads together and come out with strategic policy to feed into the Government’s thinking.  The unique feature of Nesc, O’Connell told…

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