We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Irish Academy of Management Distinguished International Scholar is Professor Susi Geiger, University College Dublin. This event will be facilitated by Dr. Nicole Gross, National College of Ireland.

Susi Geiger is a Full Professor of Markets, Organizations and Society at UCD College of Business. Educated in Germany, France and Ireland, Susi’s research is situated at the intersection of economic sociology, organization studies and market studies. It investigates the organisation and shaping of markets, particularly digital and pharmaceutical markets. As the only-ever Irish female business scholar, she was awarded a highly prestigious €2 million ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grant to carry out this research. Her work has appeared in over 80 international peer-reviewed journal publications (16 FT50/ABS4 publications) and 120 conference publications, including Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Economy & Society, Business & Society, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy, Journal of Medical Ethics, and many others. Susi has published one monograph and four edited books, including the forthcoming “Peak Pharma” (Oxford, 2025). “Market Studies: Mapping, Shaping and Impacting Markets” (Cambridge, 2024) and “Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good” (Oxford, 2021).

She is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies, and she has been elected as the ERC Ambassador for Ireland in 2025. She also sits on several editorial boards of international journals, including Organization Studies, and on three Scientific Advisory Boards. Her research has received international recognition through research awards and Best Paper prizes. 

 Susi has held prestigious grants totalling over €10m institutional grants (€4m personal grants), including as a Principal Investigator in an Enterprise Ireland Technology Centre for Connected Health, a co-PI of a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship in collaboration with UC Berkeley, California, as well as Leverhulme, Science Foundation Ireland and further Enterprise Ireland funding. At UCD, Susi has held numerous senior management positions, including Vice-Principal of Research, Innovation and Impact, College of Business Senior Management Team, UCD Academic Council, and Faculty Promotions Committee. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of California, Berkeley, University of Auckland, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech), Stockholm School of Economics, University of Vienna, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, University of Copenhagen, and others. 

Susi’s career trajectory, driven by her embrace of passionate research, caring leadership and making a societal impact, is an impressive demonstration that scholarly work can and should be rooted in care, morality and humanity. In her award presentation called “Enacting an Ethics of Care in Academic Research”, she discusses how and why she engages in an ethics of care in her academic work, gives practical recommendations on how researchers can integrate an ethics of care approach into their research, and maps out what the future holds for business contemporary scholars like her.