Anthony Brabazon is Professor of Accounting and Dean of UCD Smurfit School.

Previous positions held in UCD include Director for UCD Smurfit School, Vice-Principal of Research and Innovation for the College of Business and Law, Head of Research for the School of Business and Programme Director for the Master of Accounting Degree. Anthony was also academic project director for the design and construction of the undergraduate Quinn School of Business. In addition, he has held a variety of pro bono and non-executive directorship positions in professional bodies and other organisations, including membership of the Ethics Board of CIMA and a member (and chair) of the CCAB-I (Accounting Standards Consultative Committee - Ireland).

His primary research interests concern the development of natural computing theory and the application of natural computing algorithms to real-world problems, including the domain of business and finance. He is co-founder and co-director of the Natural Computing Research and Applications Group at UCD. Anthony has published in excess of 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has authored or edited fifteen books. He is founder of EvoFin, the only dedicated European research workshop on the application of evolutionary algorithms to computational finance and economics and is also a member of the IEEE Computational Finance and Economics Technical Committee.

Anthony completed his B Comm and Dip. Prof Accounting studies at UCD before qualifying as a professional accountant with KPMG. Subsequently he undertook postgraduate studies at number of universities including Trinity College Dublin, Heriot-Watt, Kingston and Stanford.

Helen leads the UCD Smurfit Executive Development team in providing specialist open enrolment and customised programmes for a wide-ranging portfolio of public sector, indigenous and multinational clients. Prior to joining UCD Smurfit School, Helen spent 19 years working extensively in international business development roles. She was Head of Consumer Foods for Connacht Gold in addition to previously holding a number of senior management positions, including Chief Executive of the National Dairy Council (2007-2011) and Head of International Marketing & Business Development with Bord Iascaigh Mhara (2000-2007). She is also a non-Executive Director of Self-Help Africa and the Irish Osteoporosis Society. Helen brings significant experience and a strong track record in the areas of brand development, revenue growth and strategic management. She holds a first class honours BA in communications from Dublin City University and a first class honours MBS in Marketing from UCD Smurfit School.

Brian Fynes is Associate Dean (International) and Professor of Supply Chain Management at the College of Business, University College Dublin. Prior to that he was EU Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Operations Management at London Business School. His research interests focus on supply chain practices and performance in manufacturing and service industries.

He has published over 50 articles in premier journals including Production and Operations Management, the International Journal of Operations & Production Management and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. He received an Outstanding Reviewer Award for the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (2017) and has received four Emerald Literati Awards for his published work.

He was President of the Global Manufacturing Research Group (GMRG) in 2013 and continues to serve on its Executive Board. He served on the Board of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) from 2008 to 2014 and co-chaired the 20th EurOMA Conference in Dublin in 2013. He served as Head of the Management Subject Area from 2007 to 2016.

He is co-founder of Zendfast - a supply chain start-up that solves the last mile delivery challenge with a crowdsourced on-demand courier service.

Maeve Houlihan is Associate Dean UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business and  Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Work within the management subject area.  She leads the undergraduate OB teaching team at the Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business.  

Maeve's research focuses on contemporary working lives, management practices, and their links with society and together with Prof Sharon Bolton of Stirling University Business School, she co-edited Work Matters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).  She completed doctoral studies at Lancaster University where her PhD involved a participant ethnographic study of the experience of working and managing in call centres. Recent projects included co-editing journal special issues 'Are We Having Fun Yet?' for Employee Relations, and 'Beyond the Control/Resistance Debate' for Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, and the study Interim Management: The Irish Perspective.  She has published in journals including Work, Employment and Society; Human Resource Management Journal; Work and Occupations and Journal of Business Ethics.  

Maeve has particular interests in creative spaces and the unconscious aspects of work and organisations.  Current projects focus on psychodynamic understandings of organisational life with Dr Belinda Moller and Dr Annette Clancy, and a study of Creative Careers for UCD Research with Dr Niamh NicGhabhann of University of Limerick's Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.   Maeve is currently working with PhD students Catherine McElhinney and Suzanne Carthy, and academic host to Proudly Made in Africa Research Scholar Dr Penelope Muzanenhamo and Academic Writing Centre lead Dr Megan McGurk.

Maeve recently completed tenure as Academic Programme Director for the Quinn School (Undergraduate Programmes) and Academic Coordinator for the new BComm degree in order to serve as Vice Principal of Teaching and Learning for UCD College of Business and is a member of the College Management Team.

Séamas Kelly is Vice Principal of Teaching & Learning and Professor of Organisation, Technology & Society at the UCD College of Business. He has a PhD in Management/Organisation Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering & Microelectronics (Hons, 1st Class) from University College Cork. He also holds a Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching from UCD, and is a practicing executive coach.

Séamas' research interests are in the area of critical organisation and technology studies.  He is a co-founder, and former Director, of the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO), and has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and Sydney. His work is broadly concerned with the relationship between knowledge, technology and social organisation.

Robert Joined UCD in November 2007 as Finance Director of the College of Business. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants with a Master’s in Business Administration from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School (2005).

Prior to joining UCD he served as the Group Financial Accountant for Indaver Ireland Limited for 7 years. Indaver are a European waste management company.