Marie is a lecturer in Economics at GMIT, School of Business, Ireland and is Programme Director of the Finance and Economics Degree in the School. She holds an M.Econ.Sc in Economics and an MA in Teaching and Learning. Her research interests include monetary policy, impact of monetary policy on financial markets, the Irish economy and teaching and learning. Prior to entering academia, Marie was a market economist with treasury and investment consultants FTI Finance in the IFSC in Dublin where her research was primarily focused on financial markets.

Prior to joining FTI Finance, Marie was a research economist with the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland and research areas included monetary policy, fiscal policy and the labour market.