Agency Members
Willie Walsh | Chairperson
(appointed for a five-year term from 22 December 2014)
Member of the Remuneration Committee
Willie Walsh is Chief Executive of International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia and Vueling. Previously, he was Chief Executive at British Airways and Aer Lingus. He is president of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Maeve Carton | Agency member
(appointed for a three-year term from 22 December 2014)
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee
Maeve Carton is Group Transformation Director of CRH. Since joining CRH in 1988 she has held a number of senior roles, namely Finance Director and before that Group Controller. Prior to joining CRH, she worked for a number of years as a chartered accountant in an international accountancy practice.
Gerardine Jones | Agency member
(appointed for a five-year term from 8 March 2017)
Member of the Investment Committee
Gerardine Jones is a chartered accountant with over 30 years business and senior leadership experience. She is currently a Director of Sharpsburg Consultants Limited and also has a number of non-executive director roles, including with BNY Mellon Fund Services (Ireland) DAC, and ITG Limited. She was previously Deputy Chief Executive and Head of Risk at Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland, and Director of Listing at the Irish Stock Exchange.
Derek Moran | Agency member
(ex officio)
Derek Moran is Secretary General of the Department of Finance and is responsible for economic, budgetary and fiscal, banking and financial services policy matters and oversight of Ireland’s investments in and support for covered banks. He is a member of the Central Bank Commission and the Civil Service Management Board and is a council member of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies.
Martin Murphy | Agency member
(appointed for a four-year term from 22 December 2014)
Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee
Member of the Remuneration Committee
Martin Murphy is a former Managing Director and Chairman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ireland. He serves as a board member of Ulster Bank and the UCD Smurfit Business School. He is also chair of the Labour Market Council, an expert group that advises the Government on labour market policy and provides input on wider employment issues. He is a past President of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce.
Conor O’Kelly | Agency member
(ex officio)
Conor O’Kelly is Chief Executive of the NTMA. He is the former Deputy Chairman of Investec Holdings (Ireland) Ltd. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of NCB Group which was subsequently acquired by Investec plc. Before joining NCB as Head of Fixed Income, he spent 11 years with Barclays Capital, where he held a number of senior management positions.
Mary Walsh | Agency member
(appointed for a five-year term from 22 December 2014)
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Mary Walsh is a chartered accountant and a former international tax partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin. She acts as an independent non-executive director on a number of private sector and not for profit boards. She has held a number of public sector positions in Ireland and the EU.
Robert Watt | Agency member
(ex officio)
Member of the Remuneration Committee
Robert Watt is Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with responsibility for public expenditure policy, capital spending and Public Private Partnerships and overall management and reform of the Irish public service. He is an economist and has experience in both the public and private sectors.
Susan Webb | Agency member
(appointed for a four-year term from 22 December 2014)
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Chairperson of the Investment Committee
Susan Webb is a former Managing Director of Pfizer's international treasury centre based in Dublin. She is an independent non-executive director of Wells Fargo Bank International Unlimited Company and of Depfa Bank plc.