Short profil:

Olan works as a doctoral researcher for the OBFA-TRANSFORM project at Global Climate Forum. His research interests are in comparative and international political economy. His doctoral project looks at how European states are investing in frontier technologies which are vital to the Green Transition through OBFAs such as strategic investment funds, development banks, and national energy companies, with case studies covering a range of countries including Ireland, Denmark, and Germany.

Olan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School, where he worked as a research assistant and seminar organiser for the Hertie Social Policy Research Group. He has additionally gained research experience at think tanks such as the Trinity Centre for Social Innovation in Dublin and the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin. Before joining GCF, Olan worked for two years as a researcher and project manager at a market research firm.

Research Interests:

Macroeconomic policymaking; financing the Green Transition; the international monetary system; national growth models; European economic governance; social policy.

Selected Publications:

Stojanovic, Aleksandar and Olan McEvoy (2026), Hide Your Strength, Bide Your Time? China’s International Monetary Strategy at the Crossroads, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 14-EN, Berlin: Global Climate Forum.

McEvoy, Olan, Fanny Chaltiel, Andrei Guter-Sandu, and Steffen Murau (2025), A Silent Revolution in the Suburbs. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in U.S. Mortgage Finance, 1932-1981, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 11-EN.

McEvoy, Olan, Moritz Kapff, Andrei Guter-Sandu, and Steffen Murau (2025), Mind the MacMillan Gap. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Britain’s Post-War Industrial Financing, 1945-1973, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 10-EN, Berlin: Global Climate Forum.

Guter-Sandu, Andrei, Verena Gradinger, Olan McEvoy, and Steffen Murau (2025), From Stabilisation to Strategic Mobilisation. The Exchange Equalisation Account as a Wartime Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agency, 1932-1945, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 9-EN, Berlin: Global Climate Forum.

Haas, Armin, Andrei Guter-Sandu, Olan McEvoy, Steffen Murau (2025), All Quiet on the Fiscal Front? Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in the German War Economy, 1914-1918, OBFA-TRANSFORM Working Paper No. 7-EN, Berlin: Global Climate Forum.