Professor Gerardine Doyle, Director of UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, has been appointed as President of the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).

Founded in 1971, EIASM is a multidisciplinary network for researchers and doctoral students in management with over 50,000 management scientists and the central set of networks bringing together management scholars from throughout Europe, as well as enabling communication between Europe and other parts of the world.

EIASM has been described as the European 'Network of Networks for Researchers and Doctoral Students in Management'.

Professor Doyle is only the second ever female President of the nearly 50 year old network.