Danny McCoy is Chief Executive Officer of Ibec, Ireland’s largest business representative organisation and one of the largest in Europe. He has been CEO since 2009, Ibec has doubled in size to be a €50 million turnover business, with 330 employees over ten locations and owning 39 trade brands.
He is a graduate in Commerce from the University of Galway and postgraduate in Economics from University College Dublin. He has held lecturing posts at University College London, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University. He has been senior economist at the Central Bank of Ireland and the Economic & Social Research Institute as well as being a consultant to the European Commission in Brussels and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
Danny is a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Honorary Doctorate in Economics from University of Galway, Honorary Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering, Adjunct Professor Trinity College Dublin Business School and former President of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland and Independent Non Executive Director of Iput Real Estate.
He is currently the Employer Leader on the tripartite Labour Employer Economic Forum, Executive Committee of BusinessEurope, advisory committee of the Marine, Resource and Energy Institute (MaREI), member of both the State Investment and Trade Council and the Balance for Better Business group. Previously, he has been a member of the National Economic & Social Council, National Competitiveness Council, Commission on Taxation and the National Training Agency.
Larry Donnelly is a Boston born and educated attorney who is a Lecturer & Director of Clinical Legal Education in the School of Law at the University of Galway. From a prominent Boston political family and formerly active in politics and government in Massachusetts, he is now a frequent media commentator on politics, current affairs and law in Ireland and the US. He is also a regular political columnist with TheJournal.ie, The Irish Post and Boston Irish magazine. His memoir, The Bostonian: Life in a Boston Irish Political Family, was published by Gill Books in 2021.
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