Celine McInerney

Dr. Celine McInerney is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems, at University College Cork (UCC) where she specialises in corporate finance, investments, capital markets and investment appraisal. Celine is also a Principal Investigator with UCC's Environmental Research Institute. She holds an M.Litt. in finance and a postgraduate diploma in statistics from Trinity College Dublin. Celine's postgruaduate study in Trinity was financed by the School of Business Scholarship award. Celine is the co-course director on the Masters in Corporate finance with Professor Mark Hutchinson. The course shortlisted for best postgrad business course by GradIreland in 2014. Celine represented UCC on the Cork Chamber of Commerce Financial Services Working Group and is the academic mentor for BSc Finance students on 3rd year work placement modules.

Celine completed her PhD thesis titled "" in 2014. The PhD thesis was completed under the supervision of Professor Derek Bunn of London Business School and Professor Ciaran Murphy at UCC. Her main research interests are in investment appraisal, investment in renewable energy assets, real options, carbon liabilities, impact of carbon on cost of debt, regulated returns, and cost of capital, community investment in renewables and fossil fuel lock in.

Celine has significant industry experience. Prior to joining University College Cork (UCC) as a finance lecturer in 2009 she spent twelve years working as a corporate finance advisor. Her last position in industry was as Director of Corporate Finance at boutique corporate finance advisor Merrion Capital where she focused on the energy sector. Prior to this she spent three years working for Ireland’s largest private wind farm developer Southwestern Services where she was responsible for acquisitions and equity fundraising. Previously she worked in mergers and acquisitions at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Lehman Brothers in London and New York. Celine has also held position at Consensus Economics, Credit Lyonnais, Guinness Ireland and Trinity College Dublin.

NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers, US Securities Authority) Series 7 qualified. SFA (Securities and Futures Authority, UK Securities Authority) qualified.