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Two Professors from UCD Business Schools listed in Irish Independent Top 50 Women in Business

Date: 27 Jun 2008

Prof Niamh Brennan

Professor Mary Lambkin

UCD Smurfit School proudly congratulates Professor Mary Lambkin and Professor Niamh Brennan for being named in the Irish Independent Top 50 Women in Business listing, as published on Thursday June 26th 2008.

Professor Mary Lambkin is Professor of Marketing at UCD Business Schools. She recently joined the board of Citibank Europe as a non-executive Director. She also sits on the boards of Barclays Insurance (Dublin) and the Affordable Homes Partnership. She is chairman of Copy Clearance Ireland, which pre-vets advertising appearing in the Irish media and is a fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.

Her research interests centre on strategic marketing issues, in particular branding and she frequently contributes regularly to Irish Director magazine amongst others.

Professor Niamh Brennan is the Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at UCD Business Schools. She is also academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance at UCD. She is currently a non-executive director of Ulster bank and the HSE and has previously served on the boards of Lifetime Assurance, Coillte and Co-Operation Ireland.

Contributing to the work of two professional bodies, she is chairman of the Committee on Professional Conduct of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and is a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. In 2002, she was appointed by the Minister for Finance to chair the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the HSE, while in 1999 she was appointed by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment as vice-chairman of the Review Group on Auditing.

With over 100 publications, she has published widely in the areas of financial reporting, corporate governance and forensic accounting.