Finola Kennedy has been a Lecturer at University College Dublin and at the Institute of Public Administration, Ireland. She has served on a number of Boards, including the Housing Finance Agency (chairman), ACCBank and the Railway Procurement Agency. She was a member of the Review Group on the Constitution and the Commission on the Status of Women.
She is the author of the pioneering study, Cottage to Crèche: Family Change in Ireland (2001). She has contributed frequently to newspapers such as the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post and the Sunday Independent.
