Olive is Director of the Centre for Co-operative Studies and senior lecturer with the Department of Food Business and Development at University College Cork.
She completed a masters by research on credit union management and a PhD on credit union effectiveness and performance. She has since conducted a wide range of credit union research and is particularly interested in co-operative values and principles.
Having served in various local and national credit union positions since 1995, Olive has considerable experience in the credit union movement. She is currently a volunteer with St. Michael’s Credit Union in Cork.