Lisa Sheenan

Lisa is currently Assistant Professor in Banking and Finance at the University College Dublin (UCD) Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. She holds a PhD in Finance from Maynooth University. She has worked as an Economist for the Central Bank of Ireland and as a Risk Analyst for the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland at the National Treasury Management Agency of Ireland. She also worked as an Assistant Professor in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast.

She has published research in several peer-reviewed international academic journals, including Economics Letters, The Journal of Banking and Finance, Energy Economics, The European Journal of Finance, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the International Journal of Finance and Economics and The International Review of Financial Analysis. She has also contributed to the sub-working group on Policy Design for the Green Finance Effectiveness Framework, produced by the Green Finance Platform, which is co-hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme. Additionally, she was a visiting scholar in the Banque de France Climate Economics Unit in 2023. She is a member of the All Island Climate and Biodiversity Research Network (AICBRN) and the Climate Northern Ireland (NI) Policy and Research Panel.

Lisa is a Funded Investigator at  Climate +, investigating ways in which private finance can be mobilised to conserve biodiversity and potential risk transmission channels between biodiversity loss and the real economy.