Niamh Moore-Cherry is associate professor and deputy head of the School of Geography, University College Dublin. She is an urban geographer and her research is focused on understanding how cities are governed; how urban policy is developed; and with what impacts. She is the author of Dublin Docklands Reinvented (Four Courts Press, 2008), has co-edited two books and has published papers in national and international journals. She is president of the Geographical Society of Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy Social Sciences Committee.