Eamonn Walsh, professor of accounting at University College Dublin and a high-profile commentator on financial issues, has died. He was 60.
Mr Walsh was a member of staff at UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate School of business for 22 years. He was a former dean of the school, and in recent years occupied a professor of accounting role that is supported by financial services firm PwC.
After graduating from Trinity College Dublin in the early 1980s, Mr Walsh studied at postgraduate level at the London School of Economics (LSE) before obtaining his PhD from the University of Glasgow. He subsequently began his teaching career at LSE.
After nearly a decade teaching at New York University, he returned to Ireland as professor of accounting and finance at University of Limerick in 1994, before moving to UCD five years later.
A noted expert in the fields of financial analysis, equity valuations and US securities markets, Mr Walsh was known in the media world as a colourful commentator who held an ability to enliven those topics.
He was also known to many as an energetic public speaker and was closely associated for several years with the UCD Michael Smurfit School Business Journalism Awards, which were sponsored by the college.
Mr Walsh died in a Dublin hospital last week. He is survived by his wife, fellow UCD academic Camilla Noonan, and his daughter, Emma.
