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.

Professor of Accounting and Taxation, Gerardine is Director of the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and is Associate Dean of the UCD College of Business. Prior to being Director of the Smurfit School Gerardine has successfully undertaken several significant leadership roles in the School including Head of Accountancy Subject Area, Head of Teaching and Learning and Programme Director, MBA Health Services Management. Beyond the university, Gerardine has been a member of and chaired several significant committees and boards, including the Audit Committee of the Health Service Executive and the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management.

Professor Doyle has developed a significant multidisciplinary research agenda in collaboration with many international colleagues at leading institutions, including Harvard Business School where Gerardine was a visiting scholar during 2017. Gerardine’s interdisciplinary research spans the disciplines of accounting, taxation, economics, medicine, public health and sociology. Gerardine has co-authored a number of successful funding applications with a total value over €14m, resulting in a multiplicity of publications and research awards. Gerardine is a founding Principal Investigator of the multi-disciplinary UCD technology centre Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) funded by Enterprise Ireland/IDA. In addition Professor Doyle is currently a Principal Investigator for a number of major international comparative research projects addressing key areas of health policy and tax policy including an Evaluation of Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Big Data against Childhood Obesity, Measurement of Population and Organisational Health Literacy and a number of studies surrounding value measurement for health care with colleagues at Harvard Business School.

Don Bredin is a Professor of Finance at the UCD Graduate School of Business and Head of the Banking and Finance Subject Area. He has previously worked at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Ireland, City University, London and University of Newcastle, UK. He undertook his PhD in Economics at the University of Newcastle. His main research interests are in economics and finance. Recent research has been published in Journal of Banking and Finance, The Energy Journal and Energy Economics. Don currently lectures a graduate level module on Commodity Finance and an undergraduate module on the History of Financial Crises. Don spent the 2012-13 academic year as a Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Helen is Director of Smurfit Executive Development at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. She holds direct responsibility for the management and strategic development of Smurfit Executive Development and is a member of the Smurfit School’s Irish Advisory Board and the School’s Senior Management Team and Executive Committee.

Prior to joining UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Helen spent almost 20 years working in international business roles within the private and public sector (CEO, National Dairy Council; Head of Consumer Foods, Aurivo; Head of Market and Business Development, BIM; Director, Nolan’s Seafoods.

While Helen leads the Smurfit Executive Development team, she also specialises in programme design and delivers across the programme portfolio in areas of leadership, change management and organisation effectiveness.  She holds an Executive Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change from Insead in addition to an MBS from UCD Smurfit School and a BA in Communication Studies from Dublin City University.  Helen is certified by the British Psychological Society for Level A Occupational Ability and Level B Personality Psychometric Test User Certification and is qualified in a range of psychometric and 360 instruments.  She has also continued her professional development throughout her career, undertaking programmes at leading ranked international Business Schools including Harvard (US), Center for Creative Leadership (US) and IESE (Spain). 

Professor Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Ph.D., is a Financial Data Scientist working towards the vision of a Conflict-Free Capitalism. While the vision is unlikely fully achievable, Andreas’ view is that anyone can strive to make a regular contribution to reducing abusive conflicts of interests and thereby enhancing the fairness of our society’s financial system. Formally, Andreas is Full Professor of Operational Risk, Banking & Finance at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School & the Lochlann Quinn School of Business of University College Dublin (UCD), serves on the schools’ management team as Vice Principal (VP) for Research, Innovation & Impact (2021-), served as VP Equality Diversity and Inclusion (2019-2021), and is a named supervisor for UCD’s SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning.

Prof Hoepner is serving as Head of the Data Subgroup on the European Union’s Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) as one of five independent members (i.e. appointed in personal capacity instead of representing a legal entity). Prior to PSF, Andreas served as independent member on the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance. In his TEG role, he co-invented ‘EU Climate Transition and EU Paris-Aligned Investing’ (EU Regulation 2020/1818) by aligning investment strategies across asset classes with the IPCC’s 1.5°C trajectory (with no or limited overshoot) and contributed to environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure regulation for benchmark statements (EU 2020/1816) and benchmark methodologies (EU 2020/1817). Before joining UCD in June 2017, Andreas was Associate Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre of Henley Business School (2013-17), where he remains a Visiting Professor of Finance. He is also Visiting Professor in Financial Data Science at the University of Hamburg and educates investment professionals as Scientific Co-Director of the Chartered Financial Data Scientist (CFDS) and the Certificate in Sustainable Investing and Finance (CSIF) of the German Investment Association (DVFA).

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.

Colm McLaughlin is Professor of Employment Relations at the UCD School of Business. His research is in comparative and institutional employment relations, with a particular focus on the effectiveness of different systems of regulation in protecting employment standards. His research has examined gender equality outcomes, training systems and low paid work. He also has an interest in case studies for teaching and has published articles on the case method.

Colm is Co-Director of the UCD Centre for Business and Society (CeBaS) and the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Coordinator for the College of Business, and produces the biennial UN PRME report for the College of Business. He was the Conference Chair for the 2016 Irish Academy of Management Conference held at the UCD Michael Smurfit Business School.

He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at the University of Cambridge and was a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney and Victoria University Wellington in 2016. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland (BA and MComm) and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School and Darwin College). Prior to joining UCD Colm held an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge and was a lecturer in Management and Employment Relations at the University of Auckland, and has held management positions in local government and the hospitality sector.