Prof. Thomas M. Begley

Keynote Chair in parallel Session:

Prof. Thomas M. Begley
Dean, School of Business,University College Dublin, UK

Professor Begley is Dean of UCD School of Business and previously held the Governor Hugh L. Carey Chair in Organizational Behavior at UCD Smurfit School of Business.

His Primary teaching and consulting interests are in the areas of organizational change, cross-cultural management, and team management. His consulting clients have included Fortune 500 companies, governments, and non-profit organizations in several countries.

Professor Begley has held visiting appointments at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the Prasetiya Mulya Graduate School of Management in Jakarta, Indonesia, Reims Management School in France, and Boston University. As a faculty member in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern Univerisity, he spent stints as chair of the Human Resources Management department and Director of the Bachelor of Science in International Business programme.

Professor Begley has published numerous articles on organizational change, cross-cultural management, and global issues in human resource management in academic and practitioner-oriented sources. One of his articles was reprinted in The History of Management Thought. He served as research director for " The International Entrepreneurship Project",a 20-century investigation of factors contributing to entrepreneurial activity. His practitioner-oriented articles have appeared in outlets such the Sloan Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Business Horizons, Human Resource Planning, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

He holds a Bachelor's degree form Seton Hall University and his Masters and PhD degrees are Cornell University.