| Who’s who in Finance: Colm Kearney, Professor of Finance, Business School, Dublin City University |
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Colm Kearney
Professor of Finance, Business School, Dublin City University
Current responsibilities: Programme Director, MSc Investment and Treasury
This involves maintaining the quality of, and further innovating the delivery of world-class education and training to Ireland’s dynamic financial services sector.
E-mail: colm.kearney@dcu.ie
Education: Third level: University College Dublin, BA (Economics and Politics), 1975. University of Essex, MA (Economics), 1977. University of Western Ontario, MA (Economics), 1978. University of Warwick, PhD (Economics), 1986. Second level: Colaiste Choilm CBS, Swords.
Career path: Professor of Economics, University of Western Sydney, 1990-1997. Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney, 1997-1998.
Special projects: Served as Senior Economic Advisor to the Federal Finance Minister in Australia during the early 1990s. Acted as financial consultant to many corporations such as Federal Airports Corporation, Pacific Power and Telstra. Current research speciality is volatility modelling and risk management.
Personal: Date of birth: 4 July 1954, Dublin
Social & sporting memberships: Lansdown Tennis Club
Interests: Sports, music.
Recommended books: Business: John Marshall and Vipul Bansal: Financial Engineering, New York. Non-business: Ardal O’Hanlon: The Talk of the Town, Dublin |
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| Article appeared in the May 2000 issue.
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