Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski has been President of Dublin City University since 2000. Dublin City University (DCU) is a university situated in Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland. ...

He was born on 30 June 1954 in Northern Germany. His family emigrated to Ireland, and he became an Irish citizen in 1976. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1978 with a B.A. and an LL.B., and from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1983 with a Ph.D. Trinity College, Dublin, corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

From 1980 to 1990 he was a Lecturer in the School of Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin (Fellow of the College from 1987). From 1991 to 2000 he was Professor of Law in the University of Hull, UK; for much of that time he was also a Dean - first of the School of Law, and latterly of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university located in Hull (or Kingston upon Hull), a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire. ...

He is also a member of the Irish National Competitiveness Council, and a non-executive Director of the NASDAQ-listed elearning company, Skillsoft plc. NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...

Ferdinand von Prondzynski is married to Heather Ingman, a well known academic and novelist, and an occasional writer in the Irish Times newspaper. The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ...