Professor Andrew Burke

Biography

Professor Andrew Burke is Chair of Business Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He served two terms as Dean from 2015-2023 and during this time Trinity Business School tripled in size, secured Triple Accreditation (AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS) placing the School in the top 1% of business schools in the world, built and self-financed a new €80 million eco-friendly building, moved into the top tier of Financial Times rankings as well as securing Athena Swan accreditation and was ranked in the top 4 business schools in the world by the Economist for gender diversity. Through extensive participation across the School's wider community he has overseen 2 strategic visions, encompassing an internationalisation strategy in 2016 and most recently the Transforming Business for Good Strategy: Strategy Horizon 2030. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and has served on the Board of the University and Audit Committee. He has also served on the Governing Body of UCD. He was Bettany Chair and the Founding Director of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship at Cranfield School of Management. He has held faculty positions at the universities of Warwick, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Balliol College Oxford and visiting professorships at UCLA and the Max Planck Institute of Economics. He delivered the first ever entrepreneurship courses at the University of Edinburgh. He was Conference Chair for EURAM's largest ever conference (which was hosted at Trinity in 2023) and co-Chair for EURAM's first ever online conference hosted during the Covid pandemic in 2020. He is an executive coach and holds a Certificate in Executive Coaching from the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely published in top ranked international journals including the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Regional Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Small Business Economics. His work has been presented at the EU Commission, World Trade Organization, HM's Treasury, UK Houses of Commons and Lords as well as through media such as Forbes Magazine, the Financial Times, RTE and BBC television and radio. . Andrew is founding Editor of the International Review of Entrepreneurship, was an Associate Editor of Small Business Economics from 2015- 2022, a Guest Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. He graduated with a D.Phil (Oxford University), MSc (London School of Economics), MA (NUI) and an honorary MA (Dubl.). He is a former President and Ents Officer of UCD Students' Union hosting bands such as the Pogues, Dr Feelgood, the Damned, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Human League and Wilko Johnson during his time in these roles. During his student days he played in a number of indie bands which were commercially unsuccessful but enjoyable experiences for the band, if not the audience!