Faculty Profiles

Prof. Tony Cunningham:

Tony is Director of the Centre for Marketing Studies at the Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin. In the early 1980's, he was involved in devising an action learning approach to business education for the UN's International Trade Centre to enable marketing advisers in developing countries assist companies build their export business. He is co-founder of both the Smurfit Business School and LSB College.

Pror. Mike Cooley

Prof Mike Cooley is an internationally renowned advisor on Technological and Economic Developments including the Service Sectors. He is Director of the European Technology Exchange (The Product Bank). Mike has lectured at Universities in Australia, Europe and the United States. He has produced over forty scientific papers and is author or joint author of eleven books in English and German and has contributed to some thirty-five more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages from Finnish to Japanese. He is an international authority on human-centred computer-based systems and in 1981 was joint winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize.

Prof. Aidan O,Reilly :

B. Comm. (UCD), M BA(Chicago), MIOD(London). London and University of Chicago Consultancy. Senior Lecturer in Management, Polytechnic of North London. Former Dean of the Business School of the University of Ulster, where he developed one of the largest Business Faculties in Europe. Pro-Vice Chancellor and Provost at Coleraine Campus. Advisor to industrial Development Board (Northern Ireland). International Marketing Consultant to United Nations in South East Asia. Visiting Professor; University of Chicago Business School. Author of books on International Management & Organisation Development.
From 1989 to 1996, Prof. O'Reilly was Chairman of Gallaher (Northern Ireland) and a Director of Calor Gas and Community Radio Services. At the present time, he is Visiting Professor in Marketing at University College Cork, Consultant to the Dublin Institute of Technology amid Chairman of International Business Initiatives Ltd., Belfast.

Prof. Herity:

Lecturer in Archaeology at University College, Dublin for many years, Dean of Celtic Studies there between 1984 and 1900.
Prof. Herity mainly specialised in the Stone Age and was the author of books, monographs, and papers on the period. Another area of particular interest being the earliest Christian era - Prof. Herity is presently working towards finishing a book on the Atlantic island hermitages of these times.
Past President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Prof. Herity has also been the Editor of it's Journal since 1971.
Amongst the engagements entered into by Prof. Herity for the year 2000 are a lecture in late February in association with l'Imaginaire Irlandais at the Collège des Irlandais in Paris. This lecture, one of a series, will be on Hermits and Monks in the Atlantic Islands.
Prof. Herity will also organise the tenth annual Canon James MacDyer Summer School which will convene in Gleanncholmcille in Donegal.

Dr. Michael Deeny:

Master of Science from UCD and Ph.D. from Penn State. Dr. Deeny has experience in the Irish Trade Board, where he set up and ran the Brussels Office and was Marketing Director with the Pigs & Bacon Commission. He is a former Director of the Division of Technical Co-operation, International Trade Centre UNCTAD/GATT, Geneva. The I.T.C. is a UN Agency assisting developing countries to increase export performance. Dr. Deeny was the senior Irish National in the UN system in Geneva.

Prof. Gordon Wills:

Gordon Wills was 1992 Revans Professor of Management Action Learning at International Management Centres (IMC). Since 1982 he has been Principal of IMC, a non-traditional management school entirely committed to using action learning. It has conducted programmes in joint alliances with enterprises on five continents, in 20 countries and four languages. He is a graduate of Reading University in Politics and Economics, of the Open University, in Educational Administration, and holds his doctorate from Cranfield in Marketing and Logistics. He worked with ICE and Foote, Cone, and Belding before going to Bradford University in 1965 to establish marketing studies there. He was Professor of Customer Policy at Cranfield School of Management, 1972-1982, with responsibility for launching Doctoral Studies in 1973 then Continuing Studies in 1976. He has worked with the United Nations in Mexico and Cyprus, and as visiting Professor in Alberta, Western Australia, Queensland, Finland and Oklahoma. Author of over 30 books from fashion marketing to technological forecasting.

Prof. Antti Paasio:

Professor of Business Enterprise in the Turku Business School in Finland.