Before joining NUI Galway, Cian worked in the Department of Economics at University College, Cork and previously in fund management with Bank of Ireland Asset Management, Dublin.

Cian is currently a lecturer in economics within the JE Cairnes School of Business & Economics at NUI Galway, where he delivers a wide range of modules across the discipline of financial economics. He is actively involved on several academic committees within the School. Moreover, he is currently Programme Director of the interdisciplinary BSc. in Financial Mathematics and Economics degree programme. He has also been a regular newspaper contributor to the 'Money Matters' column for the Galway Independent and has made a number of media contributions on various radio and television programmes. 

Cian is also the academic liaison for NUI Galway with the Irish branch of the CFA Institute (the global representative organisation for investment professionals). Through the SUMMIT FINUAS Network (managed by Skillsnet), he has also delivered lectures on global financial markets and fund services. These lectures were aimed at jobseekers seeking an insight into financial markets and an understanding of the international financial services sector in Ireland.
 

Selected Publications:

"The Eurozone: Saved by the Bell?", Journal of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland, Vol 116(1), 2012. 

“Modelling Linkages Among European Equity Markets Incorporating Time-Varying Conditional Skewness,” IAEA Conference, Madrid, Spain, March 2007.

“Using DCC-GARCH to Model International Bond and Equity Market Interactions”, International Conference in Finance, Copenhagen, September 2005.

"Multivariate GARCH Analysis,” Economic and Social Review, 29 (4), 1998.