Niamh Brennan

Niamh Brennan is Emeritus Full Professor of Corporate Governance at University College Dublin, having held the Michael MacCormac Professor of Management Chair. She founded the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance in 2002.

Elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s highest academic honour, the first business school academic to be so recognised, Niamh also received a British Accounting & Finance Association Distinguished Academic Award, was inducted into the Interdisciplinary Accounting Research Hall of Fame and was awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Academy of Management. Niamh is recognised by Stanford University as one of the world’s top 2% of scientists.

She was one of 22 business school faculty honoured by the US AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) in the 2024 Class of Influential Leaders.