Dónal Palcic is a Professor of Economics in the Kemmy Business School. His primary area of research is in public sector economics with a particular focus on infrastructure policy, public enterprises, privatisation and public-private partnerships. Dónal has co-authored a book on the Irish privatisation experience and has also published a considerable number of refereed journal articles on the topics of privatisation, public-private partnerships and state-owned enterprises. He is a member of the Privatisation and PPPs Research Group (P4) research group based in UL and has discussed privatisation and infrastructure policy-related issues both in the press and on national radio on numerous occasions. In 2016, Dónal spent five months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Cornell Program for Infrastructure Policy in the Department of Policy Analysis and; Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University (USA). Dónal has over twenty years lecturing experience and currently teaches economics on a range of programmes in UL. He also has considerable international teaching experience where he has been a Visiting Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France), Audencia Business School (Nantes, France) and Ecole de Management Strasbourg (France). From June 2016 to June 2025, Dónal served three terms as Assistant Dean International for the Kemmy Business School with responsibility for the development of international partnerships and various other internationalisation activities.