ProfessorSusi Geiger

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 medical and pharmaceutical markets. 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 (€4.5m personal grants) including an Enterprise Ireland Technology Centre for Connected Health, a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship at UC Berkeley, California, as well as Leverhulme and Science Foundation Ireland funding. As the only-ever Irish female business scholar, she was awarded a highly prestigious €2 million ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grant in 2018 (see misfires.ucd.ie for more information).

Her work has appeared in over 85 international peer-reviewed journal publications (18 FT50/ABS4 publications) and 120 conference publications including Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Enterpreneurship 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). "Market Studies: Mapping, Shaping and Impacting Markets" (2024, Cambridge), and "Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good" (Oxford, 2021).

At UCD, Susi has held numerous senior management positions including Vice-Principal of Research, Innovation and Impact, UCD 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. 

Media enquiries: ​​Pharmaceutical Industry, Access to medicines, Healthcare Markets, Business Ethics, Digital Markets