Board Members
The FSAI board members are:
Mr Eamonn Ryan (Chair)
Prior to his appointment as Chairman of the FSAI in March 2007, Mr Eamonn Ryan was Executive Director of IDA Ireland. In a career spanning three decades of Ireland’s economic transformation, he played a pivotal role in shaping and implementing strategy for the phenomenal growth of the Irish economy. Mr Ryan has a long and distinguished career in Ireland’s public sector and has a wide knowledge and experience of business in the domestic and international arena. He was Executive Director International of IDA Ireland’s global operations based in New York, where under his leadership and management, the agency attracted substantial levels of the most technologically-advanced foreign direct investment from the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific. Mr Ryan is a graduate of University College, Dublin, with further academic pursuits in Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon.
Professor John Daniel Collins
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Professor John Daniel Collins MVB MVM MS (Calif.) PhD MRCVS is Professor Emeritus of Farm Animal Clinical Studies at University College, Dublin (NUI-UCD). He is an Honorary Member of the European College of Veterinary Public Health and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of Ireland. Formerly he was the Chair of UCD's Centre for Food Safety and Director of UCD's Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis. Professor Collins is a member of the European Food Safety Authority's Scientific Committee and Chair of its Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards. He is a Member of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's Scientific Committee.
Mr Eamon Corcoran
Prior to his appointment to the Board of the FSAI, Eamon Corcoran spent 32 years as a civil servant, initially in the former Department of Labour and subsequently as an Industrial Relations Officer in the Conciliation Service of the Labour Court. He joined the Department of Health and Children in 1990 and served in a number of areas - including the Public Health Division (which included the food safety brief). Mr Corcoran was head of the Food Unit in the Department from September 2002 until March 2008. During the same period, he also headed the Tobacco Control Unit and was involved in the succcessful introduction of 'Smoke-free at work' (the workplace smoking ban) in March 2004. He was previously a board member of the National Cancer Registry and of the Institute of Public Health.
Ms Miriam Cashell
Ms Miriam Cashell is a graduate of Environmental Health, holds a post graduate diploma in Food Safety from DIT and is a certified Lead Auditor
She is a Principal Environmental Health Officer with the HSE based in Cork city where she leads and manages a team accredited to NSAI 9001:2008. Her motivation is directed at delivering a client focused high standard of best practice in food safety issues.
Miriam has over 30 years experience of working in the Environmental Health Service both in Ireland and previously in England as a chartered EHO. She is a member of the Cork Zoonosis Committee. She has also served as a vice president of Impact, the public service trade union. Her career has always encompassed the core principles of educating and promoting food safety practices within the food industry. She has a particular interest in training programmes for food workers in the areas of food safety and quality assurance. She has served on interdisciplinary groups developing protocols on food borne illness.
She has been involved in many national groups in developing and ensuring that best professional practice is available both in guidance and legislation.
Professor Albert Flynn
Professor Albert Flynn, B.Sc., Ph.D. (NUI, Galway), is Professor in Nutrition in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College, Cork . His areas of particular interest include food safety risk assessment, gene-nutrient interaction in bone metabolism, food fortification and risk benefit assessment of nutrients. Professor Flynn is Chair of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's Scientific Committee. He is also a member of the European Food Safety Authority's Scientific Committee and is Chair of its Panel for Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies.
Ms Eimear Killian
Ms Eimear Killian, Deputy General Manager of Glenlo Abbey Hotel, Galway, has recently been appointed to the Board of the FSAI.
Eimear is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street, with a Dipolma in Hotel Management (1996). She also holds a Certificate in Food Hygiene Management and delivers training in food hygiene. She has a wealth of management experience in many established hotels throughout Ireland to include Ferrycarraig Hotel, Wexford; Bellbridge House Hotel, Co. Clare; Jury’s Hotel, Dublin; Shannon Oaks Hotel, Galway and Peacockes Hotel, Connemara.
Eimear is an active member of Irish Hotels Federation and is a member of the Board of the Office of Tobacco Control. She has also sat on the Board of Connemara Toursim. She is currently the coordinator of the Fáilte Ireland Optimus ‘Mark of Best Practice’ Programme and team leader of The Green Hospitality Awards at Glenlo Abbey.
Ms Anne Nolan
Ms Anne Nolan, B.Sc. (Pharm), MBA, MPSI is Chief Executive of the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA). She qualified as a pharmacist in 1982 and became a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland in 1983. She obtained a masters degree in Business Administration from University College, Dublin (UCD) in October 1993 and in recent years, has completed a number of the modules in the Director Development Programme at the Centre for Corporate Governance, UCD. From 1982 to 1987 she worked in retail pharmacy and pharmaceutical wholesaling and from 1987 to 1994 she was Healthcare Group Director and Company Secretary with the Federation of Irish Chemical Industries. She was a member of the Irish Medicines Board from 1996 to 2005. In addition to her board commitments in the healthcare sector, she is currently Acting Chairman of the Irish Aviation Authority and is a member of the Irish board of the Smurfit Business School. Ms. Nolan is also a part-time lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at Trinity College, Dublin.
Mr Pat O’Mahony
Mr. Pat O’Mahony, M.V.B., M.V.M., A.M.D., M.B.A., M.R.C.V.S., is Chief Executive of the Irish Medicines Board, a position he took up in December 2002. Having spent a number of years in private veterinary practice and as technical manager in the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland and the UK, he worked in public health and was Director of Consumer Protection at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Mr. O’Mahony was awarded an MBA degree from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College, Dublin in 2001. He is a member of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency and served as Chairman from 2007 to 2011. He is also a member of the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, the Irish National Accreditation Board and a member of the National Patient Safety Advisory Group.
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Professor Alan Reilly (Chief Executive)
Alan Reilly (BSc, MTech, CBiol, MIBiol, FIFSTI) is Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute of Food and Health, University College, Dublin. A graduate of University College, Dublin and of Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, he has worked for over 38 years in the area of food safety. Before joining the FSAI in 1999, he worked in the Food Safety Programme of the World Health Organization in Geneva. He has spent a number of years working at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich in Kent, UK and has worked as a visiting Associate Professor at the College of Fisheries, University of the Philippines. He is a member of the Advisory Forum of the European Food Safety Authority and a Board Member of the Irish National Accreditation Board. He acts as an advisor to national and international food safety organisations.
Last reviewed: 16/2/2012