Phil Mullan researches and lectures on the interplay of the economy and politics. Currently working independently, his work is informed by over two decades of experience in management and advisory roles in international business including, until 2014, eight years as a senior manager with Easynet Global Services and previously as Chief Executive of internet services company Cybercafé Ltd. Phil is author of Beyond Confrontation: globalists, nationalists and their discontents (Emerald Publishing, 2020), Creative Destruction: how to start an economic renaissance (Policy Press, 2017) and The Imaginary Time Bomb: why an ageing population is not a social problem (IB Tauris, 2000).