Niall O’Sullivan is professor of economics at Cork University Business School. His research interests are in fund management, asset pricing and empirical finance. He has published research in Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Financial Management, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and others. Professor O'Sullivan is Co-Director of the Centre for Investment Research and is the recipient of substantial research grants from the Irish Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.

Professor O’Sullivan’s research interests are in fund management, asset pricing and empirical finance. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Investment Research (CIR). Based in UCC, the CIR is an international collaboration involving researchers at UCC, Cass Business School (London) and Dublin City University Business School. The Centre has specialist expertise in fund performance evaluation and asset management where it sponsors and supervises PhD candidates in several research projects. The Centre engages with the financial services industry in finance technology transfer.

Dr O' Sullivan generally teaches in the area of financial economics and econometrics. The following is a list of courses taught:EC6045 Asset PricingEC6046 Fund Management and Evaluation EC6006 Treasury Risk ManagementEC6625 Financial Economics for Firm StrategyEC6626 Corporate Treasury ManagementEC3119 Capital Markets and Asset Valuation