In addition, she was one of the founding members of the Centre for Corporate Governance at University College Dublin. Blanaid is an an External Examiner in the University of Liverpool and the University of Limerick. Blanaid was a Visiting Scholar to the University of Queensland (2006), Parsons Visitor to the University of Sydney (2006) and CLP Fellow in Osgoode Hall Law School,Toronto (2008). She is a Member of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Takeover Bids Network. In October 2010, Blanaid was appointed to the Central Bank Commission. In December 2010, she was invited to participate in a European Commission Expert Group on the future of EU company law.