Board of Trustees

MRFCJ is governed by a Board of Trustees (Trustees). Mary Robinson is the President of the Foundation and Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Mary Robinson, Chair

Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), and founder and President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (2002-2010), has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate...more

Bride Rosney, Secretary

Bride Rosney was the Director of Communications with the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ from 2001 to 2009, having previously worked as Special Advisor to Mary Robinson for an eight-year period, during her time as President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...more

Tom Arnold

Tom Arnold was appointed CEO of Concern Worldwide in 2001. He was previously Assistant Secretary General and Chief Economist in the Department of Agriculture and Food in Ireland. Tom has served on a number of high level bodies including the UN Millennium Project’s Hunger Task Force ...more

Frank Convery

Frank Convery is Director of the Environmental Systems Institute at University College Dublin (UCD). Prior to taking up his post at UCD, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Duke University, USA ...more

Conor Gearty

Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics. He is a founder member of Matrix Chambers and has a practice which specialises in judicial review and which includes human rights law within its main fields. ...more

Jane Grimson

Jane Grimson is Chair of Health Informatics at the Department of Computer Science in Trinity College, Dublin and she is also Associate Professor and Co-Chair for Health Informatics at the College. Jane acts as consultant to a number of commercial, industrial and semi-state bodies ...more

Hadeel Ibrahim

Hadeel Ibrahim is the founding executive director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established in 2006 to support great African leadership. she is a board member of Refugees International and UNESCO's LEAP programme ...more

Irene Khan

Irene Khan served as Secretary General of Amnesty International (AI) from August 2001 to December 2009. Prior to joining AI she served with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, including as Deputy Director in the Department of International Protection ...more

Brigid Laffan

Brigid Laffan has been Principal of the College of Human Sciences at University College Dublin (UCD) since 1994. She is a member of the Research Council of the European University (EUI) Florence, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) ...more

David Went

David Went is chairman of The Irish Times Limited and of Trinity Foundation. He is also a non executive director of Goldman Sachs Bank (Europe) Ltd and a former non executive director of the VHI. He previously served as chairman of the Financial Services Consultative Industry Panel ...more