Aidan O’Driscoll - Chairperson

Aidan O’Driscoll joined the civil service in 1977 as an Administrative Officer and subsequently trained as a Policy Analyst in the Department of Finance. He served in a variety of posts in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine including Chief Economist from 1995 to 2001 and Assistant Secretary from 2001 to January 2015 for EU Affairs, Economics and Climate Change. He was appointed Secretary General in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in January 2015 and subsequently to the Department of Justice and Equality from where he retired in 2020. Aidan also worked in Africa and Asia in a variety of roles and was Chair of the Committee on World Food Security 2000-2002.