Professor Deirdre Ahern
Professor in Law, Trinity College Dublin
Interests
Comparative Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and tackling the regulatory challenges presented FinTech and Artificial Intelligence
Background
Professor Deirdre Ahern is the Director of Research at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research areas are comparative corporate law, corporate governance and tackling the regulatory challenges presented FinTech and Artificial Intelligence.
An appointed member of the European Commission's Informal Company Law and Corporate Governance Expert Group for 2020-2024, Professor Ahern is working with the Commission and other experts on EU policy development. Director of the Technologies, Law and Society Research Group at Trinity College, Professor Ahern is also a member of the League of European Research Universities' Legal Team on Artificial Intelligence and co-ordinates the FinTech Regulation and Policy module on the School's LLM programme.
Professor Ahern's research agenda engages with the societal and legal expectations of companies and their directors including the ethical challenges presented by globalisation and new technologies. She has a track record of publishing cutting-edge transformative work which is well cited in academic, policy, judicial and legal practice contexts.
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