Previous positions held in UCD include 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 (see http://ncra.ucd.ie). 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.

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.

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).

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.

Professor Federica Pazzaglia is Director of UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and is Associate Dean of the UCD College of Business. She completed her PhD at the University of Alberta Business School. Her research interests include social cognition, identity, image, behavioral approaches to strategy, corporate governance, and social and institutional entrepreneurship. 

Her work has been accepted for publication in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, and Family Business Review. 

She has received a number of research awards, to include a Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Alberta, and an Early Career Research Award from UCD. She has also received a 'Best Overall Paper Award' and a 'Carlo Masini Award for Innovative Scholarship' and has been a finalist for the 'Carolyn Dexter Award for Best International Paper' at the Academy of Management Conference. She also received a 'Best Reviewer Award' at Corporate Governance: An International Review and a Teaching Award from the University of Alberta. She is member of the editorial boards of Human Relations, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Corporate Governance: An International Review. 

Prior to moving to UCD she was Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba School of Business (Canada) and a Visiting Professor at Instituto de Empresa Business School (Spain). She has taught courses in the Bachelor of Commerce programs at Alberta and Manitoba, in the Master in Management program at Instituto de Empresa, and in the Executive program jointly offered by Instituto de Empresa and Northwestern University.

Karan is Full Professor and Chair in Organizational Behaviour and Associate Dean (Global Business Engagement). Karan also serves as an Associate Editor for 'Human Relations' and 'Journal of Management Inquiry'. He joined University College Dublin in 2009. He earned his PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has held prior academic appointments at IE Business School, Spain and University of Manitoba, Canada. Karan served as Captain in the Indian Army prior to his PhD. 

His current research builds upon the social identity, social cognition, social evaluations, and social issues in management literatures. He generally adopts a phenomenon driven and qualitative approach to investigate puzzling anomalies around us. His work has been published in several leading journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Vocational Behavior, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Organizational Research Methods. He has won a number of awards for his research, including Runner-Up award for best publication in leading journals by Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation (2025). He has also won several awards from the Academy of Management. These include a Best Overall Paper Award from the Careers Division, Carlo Masini Award, publication in AoM Best Paper Proceedings, and Finalist for the Carolyn Dexter Award. He is a also winner of an Early Career Research Award at UCD

He currently teaches in the executive development, MBA, and Bachelors programs. He has won a Professor of the Year Teaching Award at University of Manitoba, Canada and a Teaching Award at University of Alberta, Canada. He regularly delivers executive training on the topics of managing talent, strategic planning, managing change, and leadership for organisations such as A&L Goodbody, An Gard Siochana, Aer Lingus, Almac, Alltech, Allianz, Agilent, Department of Taoiseach, PwC, Microsoft, ICON, Ericsson, Dairygold, Dawn Foods, CIE, DJEI, and Mater Hospital.

Tim is the Director of Executive Development at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ireland’s top-ranked business school. With over 20 years of leadership experience in executive education, he previously served as Director of Executive Education at Warwick Business School and Nottingham University Business School.

An experienced executive educator, consultant, and practitioner, Tim specialises in leadership development, strategic change, organisational communication, and employee engagement. While at Warwick, he was appointed Professor of Practice and received several teaching excellence awards for his outstanding contributions to postgraduate and executive programmes. 

Tim has successfully designed, led, and delivered senior executive programmes for leading global organisations across diverse industries, consistently focusing on driving organisational impact. Before transitioning into executive education, he held senior roles in strategic communication and change within the telecommunications sector.