Niamh Brennan

Niamh Brennan is Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and Founder/Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance. A first-class honours, first-in-class UCD Science (Microbiology and Biochemistry) graduate, Prof Niamh Brennan qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG, holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and is a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors (London). With 100+ publications, she has a h-index of 28 reflecting 5,000+ Google Scholar citations. In recognition of her research, Niamh received the 2018 British Accounting & Finance Association Distinguished Academic Award and was inducted into the Interdisciplinary Accounting Research Hall of Fame in 2019. Prof Brennan’s papers received a British Accounting Review best-paper award, Mary Parker Follett Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal best-paper and ‘highly commended’ awards, and an Accountancy Ireland best-article award. She has received four best-reviewer awards. Prof Brennan is Associate Editor of the British Accounting Review, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Accounting Forum. In a survey of alumni, Niamh was voted one of UCD's top three lecturers for the 2000s onwards. Former chair of the National College of Art & Design and of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, she holds/has held non-executive directorships with the Children's Hospital Ireland, the Health Service Executive, Ulster Bank, Co-operation Ireland, Coillte (State forestry company), Lifetime Assurance (Bank of Ireland’s life assurance subsidiary) and several private companies, and is/was a member of numerous audit committees. She chaired the Irish Government's Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Services and was Vice-Chair of the Irish Government's Review Group on Auditing. Niamh is an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of The Institute of Directors in Ireland and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland.

DEGREES

• BSc University College Dublin
• FCA Inst of Chartered Accountants IRL
• PhD University of Warwick
• CDir Institute of Directors London

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Financial Reporting: Accounting Narratives, Impression Management
• Corporate Governance: Boards of Directors, Audit Committees, Whistleblowing
• Forensic Accounting
• Clinical Governance
• Doctoral Studies