A strong grounding in corporate governance

Niamh Brennan, the founder of UCD’s Centre for Corporate Governance, believes knowledge is key in the day-to-day duties of a company director.

Niamh Brennan, founder of UCD’s Centre for Corporate Governance

When Niamh Brennan was 34 years of age, she was appointed a non-executive director of a board. More appointments followed, but Brennan, a chartered accountant at the time, was apprehensive.

“At an embarrassingly young age, I got a non-executive directorship, and then got another one and another one, but what did I know about being a non-executive director of a company?” she told The Sunday Business Post.

“I was a chartered accountant and ...