Jackie McCoy is Professor of Management Development, Director of The Business Institute and Distinguished Fellow of the University of Ulster (2004). Jackie joined the faculty at Ulster in early 1990 following 10 years in retail management.  She is responsible for the design and delivery of a significant portfolio of management and business development initiatives and has carried out extensive consultancy in the area of programme evaluation. Jackie has wide international experience and has led executive development initiatives and consultancy projects in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

She is a former chair and board member of the Belfast European Partnership and its successor the Belfast Local Strategy Partnership.  She also holds a number of other voluntary board positions within the third sector organisations.