Public Sector Conference 2023 (ROI) On-Demand

Key Learning Outcomes

Have advanced their understanding of key issues facing accountants and other business professionals in the public sector today.

Speaker Bios

Joan Curry - Joan is the Chair of the Public Sector Committee and a member of the Council of Chartered Accountants Ireland. She is also a Board Member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). She is currently Finance Officer for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, having previously held positions in the Public Service Pay Commission, the National Shared Services Office and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Professor Niamh Brennan - Niamh is Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and Founder/Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance. A first-class honours, first-in-class UCD Science (Microbiology and Biochemistry) graduate, she qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG, holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and is a Chartered Director of the Institute of Directors (London). Niamh was elected to the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland's highest academic honour, the first business school academic to be so recognised.

John Darby BCL - is a Senior Legal Counsel with PM Group. He has been practising as a solicitor in Ireland since 1997 and is a member of the Law Society of Ireland. He qualified and practised for ten (10) years in leading Irish law firm, McCann FitzGerald. John has also practised in-house with Diageo plc, Bord Gais Eireann and the Coca-Cola Company. John's main areas of practise are corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He has advised numerous domestic and international clients in a wide variety of business sectors, including project management, media, motor distribution, telecommunications and food and agri. John is also a frequent speaker in the areas of corporate and company law and is a lecturer on the Law Society's Professional Course on Business Law and its Diploma Courses on Company Law and Corporate Governance.

Dr Jonny Bloomfield - Jonny is a Behavioural Health & Performance Coach specialising in stress management, sleep, exercise & nutrition. His background is in Sports Science, gaining a PhD from the University of Hull and beginning his career as a Fitness Coach at Ulster Rugby and then as a Sports Physiologist at the Sports Institute of Northern Ireland. He then became the Sports Scientist for England Rugby and a Physical Performance Consultant to a number of Teams in the Premier League in the areas of fitness, recovery and sleep. Since 2015, he has been providing coaching solutions to Organisations that seek to enhance their staff health & wellbeing, such as at GRAHAM Construction, helping them to reduce their absenteeism by 100%, increase participation in wellbeing activities by 50%, reduce staff turnover by 33% compared to construction industry average and improve staff overall engagement by 15%, helping them to win the inaugural Investors in People Award for Excellence in Health & Wellbeing in 2018 and again in 2021.

Eavan Crehan - Eavan is a Corporate Finance Director with NewERA. She has over 10 years’ experience of providing financial advice to Government in relation to its shareholdings in the commercial State companies, and she led the team that developed the Climate Action Framework for the sector. Prior to joining NewERA she worked in infrastructure finance with the National Development Finance Agency and in the banking sector.

J P Corkery - J P is Senior Manager - Sustainable Finance with NewERA.  A Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, he leads NewERA’s sustainable finance work and other climate-related activities.  He provides financial advice to Government Departments related to climate action, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and nature-based solutions and has worked on a number of developments in these areas.

Alan Ryan - Alan has worked in SEAI for 17 years. He is currently the Public Sector programme manager in SEAI. He works with senior managers and energy managers in the public sector achieve national energy targets. He developed the national Monitoring and Reporting system which tracks public bodies annual performance. Prior to managing the Public Sector Programme he also managed the SME and LIEN programmes in SEAI.
Alan was involved in developing the Irish (IS393), European (EN 16001) and International (ISO 50001) energy management standards. He was responsible for developing SEAIs Energy MAP training programme, and helped develop the National Energy Services Framework and EPC supports and documentation.
Alan is a Domain Coordinator on the Concerted Action Energy Efficiency Directive initiative, which aims to share good practices of the implementation of the EED amongst policy makers and energy agencies in Member States. Prior to SEAI Alan worked for 8 years as a facility manager in the electronics and pharmaceutical industries.

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