Professor Blanaid Clarke

Professor Blanaid Clarke BCL, MBS (Banking and Finance), BL, PhD, FTCD

Blanaid holds the McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College Dublin.  Her research interests include corporate law, corporate governance, financial services law and takeover law and she has published extensively in these areas. Blanaid is the Irish representative on the OECD Corporate Governance Committee and is Deputy Chairman of the Irish Banking Culture Board. She works with the Irish Takeover Panel and is a member of ESMA's Takeover Bids Network. She also serves as a Vice President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute in Frankfurt.

Previously Blanaid was a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (2018-2020), the Irish Central Bank Commission (2010-2018), the European Commission Informal Expert Group on Company Law (2014-2018) and the European Commission's Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law (2010-2011).