Last Friday, 17 June 2016, I announced the appointment of a new board to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). I made the appointments following a public advertising and assessment process managed by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) in line with Government guidelines. Other than the nominees of the RDS and RIA, and the staff representative, all of the appointments were from applicants who had been vetted and short-listed by PAS. The board members are:
Catherine Heaney (Chair): Founder and MD of DHR Communications
Former board member of Heritage Council and Chair of its Audit Committee
John Bowen: Former Chairman of the Crawford Gallery
Chairman and CEO of the Bowen Group (1998-2011)
Mary Crotty: Managing Director of Mary Crotty PR (1983-date)
Board member of NMI 2011-2016
Ambrose Loughlin: Chair of the Audit Committee of the Department of Finance
Partner McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors (1989-date)
Judith McCarthy: Museum Curator, Donegal County Museum
Member of Donegal Tourism Sectoral Forum
Denise Moroney: Managing Director Brand Dynamics (1994-date)
Head of Marketing Irish Times (2015)
Declan Nelson: Board member, Pobal
Former County Manager
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh: Associate Professor of History, NUIG (1989-2010)
Board member, National Museum of Ireland (2011-2016)
Andrew Power: Head of Registry, IADT (2015-date)
Board Member, Classification of Films Appeals Board
Lynn Scarff: Director, Science Gallery TCD
Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Maths and Science
Virginia Teehan: Former Director Hunt Museum Limerick (2003-2009)
Director of Heritage and Visual Arts, UCC
Aidan Walsh: Former Director of the Northern Ireland Museums Council (1993-2001)
Former Board member of the International Committee for Museums Management
Ms Heaney will appear before the relevant Oireachtas Committee as soon as the necessary arrangements to that end have been made.
I have also appointed nominees of the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), as well as a staff representative from the NMI, as follows:
Ingrid Hook (RDS)
Head of the School of Pharmacy, TCD
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (RIA)
Professor of Art History, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD
Mary O’Dowd (RIA)
Professor of Gender History and member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission
Karen Wilson (NMI)
Staff representative, NMI.