UCC conference to focus on women’s leadership in business

One of the world’s most powerful businesswomen will discuss women leadership in business at an invite-only conference in UCC today.

Third-generation Irish-American Kathleen Murphy, president of Personal Investing at Fidelity Investments, a global financial services group with millions of individual investors, will deliver her address ahead of receiving an honorary doctorate from the university tomorrow.

Ms Murphy, a 25-year industry veteran, whose father’s family is from Cork and whose mother’s family is from Kerry, oversees a business with more than $1.5tn in client assets under administration, more than 14m customer accounts and over 12,000 employees.