What If Ireland Defaults? (2 page)

Michael Dowling
is a lecturer in Finance in Dublin City University since 2011, with previous employment including positions in the University of Essex and Trinity College Dublin. He holds a Masters in Banking and Finance from the University of Stirling, and a PhD, awarded in 2007, in Behavioural Finance from Trinity College Dublin. His research concentrates on psychological influences on investors and companies, and exploring how culture plays a role in societal and individual economic decision making. Among his publications include research published in the
International Review of Financial Analysis
,
Journal of Economic Surveys
and
Journal of Multinational Financial Management
.

Declan Ganley
is an Irish entrepreneur and is chair and CEO of Rivada Networks, a communications and technology business with operations in the US and Europe. He is co-founder of the Swiss-based asset management company St Columbanus AG. Over the course of his career he has built a number of businesses in emerging markets in the forestry and telecommunications sectors. He founded Libertas as a think tank and later a political movement to promote the cause of a democratic, transparent, accountable and strong European Union. He is a frequent op-ed contributor on the subject of European reform. He is a recipient of the Louisiana Distinguished Service Medal, which was awarded for what was cited as his life-saving actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He has received various awards for entrepreneurship and public advocacy, including the Frode Jacobsen Prize for courage in Denmark and the Michal Tosovsky Prize in the Czech Republic.

Megan Greene
is the head of the Western Europe macroeconomics team at Roubini Global Economics and one of the leading voices in interpreting developments in the Eurozone crisis. At RGE, Megan conducts and coordinates macroeconomic forecasts on the Eurozone's most significant economies and responds to policy decisions (or the lack thereof) in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Germany as well as at the EU level. She regularly appears in print and broadcast media, including the
Financial Times
and
Newsnight
. From 2007 to 2011 Megan worked as the Eurozone crisis expert at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Prior to working as an economist, Megan was an investment banking analyst at JP Morgan Chase and an advisor to the Liechtenstein royal family on eradicating money laundering from the principality's financial services industry. Megan received a BA in Political Economy from Princeton University and an MSc in European Studies from Nuffield College, Oxford University. You can read some of her analysis at
www.economistmeg.com
and follow her on Twitter (@economistmeg).

Stephen Kinsella
is a lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick. His interests are in macroeconomic modelling, banking and regulation, and the Irish economy. He has published in the
Cambridge Journal of Economics
,
Journal of Banking Regulation
,
Journal of Policy Modeling
,
Financial Regulation International
, as well as in four books. His first PhD is from the National University of Ireland, his second from the New School for Social Research. He recently won an INET grant to build a stock flow consistent macroeconomic model for Ireland. Stephen is a research fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin and a research associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

Anzhela Knyazeva
is assistant professor of Finance at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. She holds a PhD from New York University. She has worked on issues related to boards of directors, dividend behaviour, firm locations, bank lending and ownership reforms. Her work has been published in the
Journal of Financial Economics
and
Journal of Banking and Finance
. She teaches courses in International Finance and Investments and has been included on the Simon Teaching Honor Roll.

Diana Knyazeva
is assistant professor of Finance at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. She earned her PhD at New York University's Stern School of Business. She has research interests in corporate finance, governance and banking. Her papers have examined corporate boards, payout policy, investment behaviour and analyst following. Her most recent work was published in the
Journal of Financial Economics
. She teaches Capital Budgeting and Financial Institutions. She has been repeatedly placed on the Simon Teaching Honor Roll.

Peter Mathews
was educated at Gonzaga College and University College Dublin, where he obtained a B. Comm. and an MBA from UCD's Smurfit Graduate Business School. He is a qualified chartered accountant with extensive experience in audit, taxation and consultancy with Coopers and Lybrand Dublin (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in the 1970s. In 1979 he joined ICC Bank in Dublin and managed the enterprise development, hi-tech and FDI lending sections of the bank. In 1983 he was appointed to develop and manage the property development, construction and investment lending section, a successful specialist area of lending for the bank. In 1999 he set up an independent banking (property and finance) consultancy practice in Dublin, consulting on the financing of property-related deals and also advising on loans as well as zoning and planning matters. Peter was elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2011 general election. He is a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform.

Gary O'Callaghan
was educated at CBS Mitchelstown, Co Cork and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork in 1981. He also earned a Masters in Economic Science from UCC and a PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Virginia, US. He joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC in 1990 and, as a member of the European Department, worked to assuage the fallout from the ERM crisis of 1992–1993. He switched to assisting post-socialist economies after 1994 and spent a year in Bosnia in 1996–1997. He was IMF Resident Representative to Croatia from 1997 to 2001 and then moved to Montenegro as an advisor to the Prime Minister. Having settled in Dubrovnik, he formally left the IMF in 2003 but still works as an economic advisor to governments in the region. He became professor of Economics at Dubrovnik International University in 2010.