In 1993, founded the path-breaking, Irish-medium undergraduate degree, Fiontar, unique in its multidisciplinary combination of finance, computing and enterprise, at Dublin City University (DCU). Though Fiontar has expanded greatly since then, it continues to attract enterprising young students to its wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
First chairman of Zamano, a hi-tech company founded by former Fiontar students, now listed on both the London and Dublin Stock Exchanges.
Professor in the Economics Department at Maynooth University where I set up and ran a number of interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
My (unpublished) PhD Dissertation was entitled, An Analysis of Eurodollar Bonds and Their Embedded Option Provisions: Valuation, Strategic and Risk Characteristics, (New York University, May 1989).
Member, Adjudication Panel (Chairman, 2003 Panel) set up by Council of Directors of Institutes of Technology to determine grant support under the Enterprise Platform Programme and funded by the National Development Plan 2000-2006, 2000 & 2003.
Convenor/Assessor, HEA Business Sub-Panel to analyse applications for Government of Ireland Scholarships Awarded by Interim Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1998.
Member, Government Commission set up to examine the role of Irish Voluntary Language Organisations. Produced Report Treo 2000, Government Publications, Dublin, 1997.