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Welcome Programme THURSDAY 4.20 REVIEW OF DAY ONE Ms Ruth Taillon, Director, Centre for Cross Border 9.30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS Studies

10.00 WELCOME 4.45 END OF DAY ONE Dr Helen Johnston, Chair, Centre for Cross Border Studies 6.30 RECEPTION s we approach the 20 th Anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement we must ask ourselves how we continue to put into 10.15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 7.00 DINNER Brexit: The constitutional issues for the UK, Ireland and Pre-dinner speaker: Mr Tony Connelly, Europe Editor, Apractice our commitment to the totality of relations within and Northern Ireland RTÉ between these islands that it represents. The Strand 1 institutions Dr Martin Mansergh, Vice Chair, Expert Advisory Group (the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly) have not functioned on Commemorations FRIDAY since January 2017, and therefore without Northern Ireland Ministers, 11.00 REFRESHMENTS 8.30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS there have been no North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meetings 11.30 PANEL 8.55 OPENING REMARKS (Strand 2), although there remains cooperation at Departmental level Human rights and the Good Friday Agreement Dr Helen Johnston, Chair, Centre for Cross Border and the NSMC Joint Secretariat continues to function. The Strand 3 CHAIR: Dr Anna Bryson, Board Member, Centre for Studies bodies – the British Irish Council and the British-Irish Cross Border Studies Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC) – should in the context of Ms Paddy Kelly, Director, Children’s Law Centre 9.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Prof Siobhán Mullally, Established Professor of Human How do we continue to moderate each other’s views Brexit be increasingly important mechanisms for cooperation. Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human through the Brexit process? Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has stated that under the Good Friday Rights, NUI Galway Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP, Conservative Party Agreement “if nothing’s devolved then everything is devolved to the Mr Daniel Holder, Deputy Director, Committee on the Administration of Justice 10.00 REFRESHMENTS British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference” and that he would be Mr Michael Farrell, Member, Council of Europe’s calling for a meeting of the BIIGC early in 2018. Commission against Racism and Intolerance; and 10.30 CONVERSATION Member, Council of State Building and maintaining relationships All of this, of course, coincides with the negotiations over the UK’s CHAIR: Dr Anthony Soares, Deputy Director, Centre for withdrawal from the EU in which issues related to Ireland/Northern 12.30 LUNCH Cross Border Studies Dr Steve Aiken OBE MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Ireland are central. The negotiations have indicated that there are at 2.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Mr Fergal Mythen, Director General, Ireland, UK and least 141 policy areas/powers returning from the EU which intersect Cooperation under the Good Friday Agreement: past, Americas Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and with the devolution settlement in Northern Ireland. While all parties present and future Trade Mr Hugh Logue , Special Advisor OFMDFM 1998-2002 Prof John O’Brennan, Jean Monnet Prof of European to the negotiations have stated their support for the Agreement “in and former European Commission Official Integration, Maynooth University all its parts”, it is not clear if there is common understanding of what Mr Justin McNulty MLA, SDLP 3.00 PANEL Dr Stephen Farry MLA, Alliance Party this means or what are their associated obligations. Devolution agreements from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit and beyond 11.30 PANEL The Centre for Cross Border Studies’ 2018 Conference will bring CHAIR: Mr Colin Stutt, Board Member, Centre for Cross together some of the people centrally involved in drafting and Safeguarding the totality of relationships Border Studies CHAIR: Mr Tony Kennedy OBE, Board Member, Centre implementing the 1998 Agreement and the Devolution settlement Mr David Brew, Executive Committee Member, for Cross Border Studies European Movement in Scotland Mr Earl Storey, Board Member, Centre for Cross Border for Northern Ireland, people who have since had responsibility for its Dr Etain Tannam, Associate Professor, International implementation and others whose work as peacebuilders and cross- Studies Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin Mr Owen Reidy, Assistant General Secretary, Irish border cooperation practitioners has given life and substance to the Ms Brid Rodgers, Founder Member and Former Deputy Congress of Trade Unions ethos and objectives of the Agreement through good times and bad. Leader, SDLP Mr John Webster, Head of the Scottish Government Mr Jim Gibney, Irish News Columnist and Sinn Féin Office in Ireland member Mr Michael D’Arcy, Programme Lead, Ibec/CBI Northern Ms Claire Sugden MLA , Independent Ireland Joint Business Council

4.00 PRESENTATION 12.30 CLOSING REMARKS The new Common Chapter for cooperation within and Ms Ruth Taillon, Director, Centre for Cross Border between these islands Studies Dr Anthony Soares, Deputy Director, Centre for Cross Border Studies 1.00 LUNCH AND END THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT IN ALL ITS PARTS: safeguarding the totality of relationships

of Brexit on children’s rights and children’s lives and in advocating for the 2003. This led to the enactment of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 which A member of the Council of the European Movement in Scotland, David Conference Speakers retention and future proofing of children’s rights protections post Brexit. This provides, for the first time, official recognition of transgender persons. previously advised Scottish Ministers on a range of European policy issues work has included consultation with young people on their fears and concerns and brings a wealth of EU negotiating experience. about and hopes for Brexit. Recognising the cross-border nature of children’s Michael lectures on the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights for Dr Helen Johnston lives on the island of Ireland, CLC has work closely with the Children’s Rights the Law Society’s Human Rights Certificate course and is a consultant to the Dr Etain Tannam Dr Helen Johnston is Chair of the Centre for Cross Alliance in Dublin in taking forward this work. Law Society’s Human Rights Committee. He was a member of the Irish Human Dr Etain Tannam is Associate Professor in Border Studies. In her day job, Helen is a Senior Rights Commission from 2001 to 2011 and is a former Chair of the Irish Paddy sits on the Board of the Human Rights Consortium which advocates International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Social Policy Analyst at the Irish National Economic Council for Civil Liberties. He has taken cases to the European Court of Human for a strong Northern Ireland Bill of Rights and has been one of the lead She is author of International Intervention in Ethnic and Social Council (NESC). Helen previously worked Rights, the European Committee on Social Rights and the UN Committee on Northern Ireland NGOs advocating for human rights protections through the Conflict: a comparison of the European Union and at the Irish Combat Poverty Agency where she was Human Rights. Brexit process. United Nations (2014, Basingstoke, Palgrave) Director for six years and Head of Research for eight and Cross-Border Co-operation in Ireland (1999, years. During her time with Combat Poverty, Helen Paddy is a former Human Rights Commissioner. Mr Hugh Logue Basingstoke, Palgrave) and has published various was involved in implementation of the Peace Mr Hugh Logue is a former European Commission book chapters and international journal articles. Her Programme, with Pobal, in the Border Counties. A native of Northern Ireland, Prof Siobhán Mullally official, joining in 1984. He is a former civil rights research interests are in the areas of Northern Ireland and British-Irish Helen worked in the Northern Ireland Civil Service in the early years of her leader, member of Northern Ireland Civil Rights relations, including the impact of Brexit, international organisations and career. She has qualifications in environmental science, town and country Prof Siobhán Mullally is Established Professor of Executive and Vice-Chair of North Derry Civil Rights conflict resolution, United Nations and European Union politics. She is planning, business administration and a doctorate in governance. Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway. She has published Association. Hugh is a founder member of the SDLP currently writing a book entitled British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century , widely in the fields of gender, women’s rights, and was elected to the Stormont Assembly for the 2020, forthcoming, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Dr Martin Mansergh migration, asylum and multiculturalism. She is SDLP in 1973, 1975 and 1981. Dr Martin Mansergh is Vice-Chair of the Expert currently the President of the Council of Europe Hugh was a member of the New Ireland Forum, 1983-84. Following the 1994 Ms Bríd Rodgers Advisory Group on Commemorations. Between anti-trafficking body, the Group of Experts on Action ceasefire, Hugh, along with two colleagues, was asked by EU President Delors Ms Bríd Rodgers was born in the Gaeltacht area of 2002 and 2011, he was a Fianna Fáil Senator, then against Trafficking (GRETA). She is a Commissioner to consult all parties in Northern Ireland and their recommendations became Gweedore and moved to Lurgan in 1960 on TD (for Tipperary South) and Minister of State with with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and is a member of the blueprint for the first EU Peace Programme. In 1997, new EU President marriage to Antoin. Following her involvement in responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Finance the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. She is the founding Joint Santer asked Hugh and his team to return and advise on a renewed Peace II the Civil Rights movement she joined the SDLP and and the Arts. He was a member of the British-Irish Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Yearbook of International Law (with Prof Fiona de programme. was Party Chairperson 1978-80, General Secretary Parliamentary Body and of President McAleese’s Londras), published by Hart Bloomsbury, Oxford. Siobhán has worked as an 1980-83 and Deputy Leader 2001-2003. Brid was second Council of State. Former diplomat, then Following the Good Friday Agreement, Hugh was seconded from the EU to adviser and consultant on human rights, migration and asylum law, gender educated at St Louis Convent, Monaghan and political advisor to Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, he Northern Ireland as Special Advisor to the First and Deputy First Ministers and justice sector reform for UN bodies (including UNIFEM, UNDP and the University College Dublin, where she graduated was a back-channel to the Republican Movement, and contributed to the from 1998 to 2002. He has been a board member of InterTradeIreland, a Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) and international with a degree in modern languages. She was nominated to Seanad Eireann negotiation of the Downing Street Declaration and the Good Friday director of three renewable energy companies and an elected board member organisations in many parts of the world. She is a graduate of the European by Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald (1983-87). Brid was Chair of the SDLP team Agreement. He is author of The Legacy of History and co-winner of the 1994 and treasurer of EASE (European Association for Storage of Energy) in University Institute, Florence (PhD), the London School of Economics (LLM) in the lead up to Good Friday Agreement and was Minister for Agriculture in Tipperary Peace Prize with Fr Alec Reid and Rev Roy Magee. He has been a Brussels. and University College Cork (BCL). the first Northern Ireland Executive. She retired in 2003. columnist with the Sunday Business Post, the Irish Times and the Irish Catholic. He received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mr Colin Stutt Mr Daniel Holder Mr Jim Gibney Ireland in October 2017. Mr Colin Stutt studied economics at King’s College Mr Daniel Holder has been Deputy Director of Cambridge, after which he joined the Northern Mr Jim Gibney is a columnist for the Irish News. A Belfast-based human rights NGO Committee on the Dr Anna Bryson Ireland Civil Service where he rose to become Head life-long republican activist, he has been to jail on Administration of Justice (CAJ) since 2011. Through of Economic Policy. In 1988 Colin left the civil three occasions. Jim was centrally involved in the Dr Anna Bryson is a Senior Lecturer in the Queen’s this role, Daniel is also Co-Convener of the Equality service to take up a career in consultancy. He was campaign for Republican prisoners during the University Belfast School of Law. She is currently Coalition, the network of trade unions and NGOs co- the partner in charge of KPMG Consulting in hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981. He was working on two ESRC-funded projects – ‘Apologies, convened by CAJ and UNISON and a member of the Northern Ireland and headed up both KPMG’s subsequently part of the Sinn Fein party team Abuses and Dealing with the Past’ and ‘Brexit and BREXITLawNI research team - a partnership economic consulting across Ireland and its work for during the negotiation of the Belfast/Good Friday Northern Ireland: The Constitutional, Conflict between CAJ and the law faculties of the Queen’s the European Commission. In 1994 he established his own consultancy Agreement and following the establishment of the Transformation, Human Rights and Equality and Ulster universities. Prior to CAJ, Daniel worked in the policy team of the business which has clients in Ireland, North and South, the European Union Northern Ireland Assembly, worked in the party’s Stormont office and Consequences’. Anna is the author of two Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for five years, and before that and internationally. Colin is a member of the board of the Centre for Cross supporting the constituency work of Sinn Fein MLAs. Jim is currently involved monographs and a textbook on research he led a migrant worker equality project run by the South Tyrone Border Studies and is also an Associate Strategic Adviser to the Strategic in the party’s Oireachtas team working on cross-border issues. methodology. She has served on the advisory board of more than a dozen Empowerment Programme and Dungannon Council. He previously worked in Investment Board for Northern Ireland. conflict-related projects including those initiated by the Maze-Long Kesh Havana, Cuba as a language professional for the University of Havana, press Development Corporation, Diversity Challenges, INCORE and the Verbal Arts agency Prensa Latina and national broadcaster, ICRT. He has a primary degree Ms Claire Sugden MLA Centre. She has also acted as a consultant for both statutory and voluntary in Spanish and Sociology and an LLM in Human Rights Law, both from Mr David Brew Ms Claire Sugden is an Independent MLA organisations with regard to the design and development of sensitive oral Queen’s University Belfast. Mr David Brew is a former senior civil servant who representing the East Londonderry history projects. Anna is an executive board member of the Committee on has worked for the EU Commission, the UK constituency. Claire is the only Independent the Administration of Justice, Diversity Challenges and the Centre for Cross Mr Michael Farrell Government and the Scottish Government. A past member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and is Border Studies. Chief Executive of the Institute of Chartered the first Independent to hold Ministerial Mr Michael Farrell is a solicitor, a member of the Accountants of Scotland, he is currently a Non- office. When she assumed Ministerial office she was Council of State and the Irish member of the Ms Paddy Kelly Executive Director of Creative Scotland and the youngest Minister in the Executive with full Council of Europe’s Commission Against Racism and Meadhanan Gàidhlig ALBA (the Gaelic Media Departmental responsibility. Claire is a graduate of Ms Paddy Kelly is a Barrister by profession. After Intolerance (ECRI). He was the senior solicitor with Service). In the late 1990s, under the first Blair Queen’s University Belfast where she studied for a BA in Politics and a MA in leaving the Bar, Paddy worked with a range of NGOs Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) from 2005 to 2015 Labour Government, David led the devolution team in the UK Cabinet Irish Politics. Before becoming a MLA, Claire was studying for a second including Save the Children. In 1997, Paddy and before that a solicitor with Hanahoes in Dublin. Secretariat, culminating in the establishment of the devolved institutions in Masters in Political Lobbying and Public Affairs at Ulster University. Claire is established the Children’s Law Centre (CLC), the He is now a consultant on Human Rights law. While Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. On the establishment of the British- an alumnus of the Washington Ireland Program when she worked within the lead Northern Ireland children’s rights organisation. working with FLAC, he represented transgender Irish Council, he became its first Joint Secretary from the UK side. He also US government in the Department of Health and Human Services in She remains its Director. CLC has led the children’s woman Lydia Foy who obtained the first declaration of incompatibility with represented the UK in Council of Europe consideration of regional autonomy 2010. She managed the Program in 2012. In May 2014 Claire was appointed sector in Northern Ireland in considering the impact the European Convention on Human Rights to be made under the ECHR Act issues. as a MLA for East Londonderry following the passing of David McClarty MLA. THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT IN ALL ITS PARTS: safeguarding the totality of relationships

Claire was David’s Parliamentary Assistant for six years. Claire also served Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP 2003-2005 and coordinator for the Permanent Representatives Committee Stephen graduated Queen’s University Belfast with a BSSc (1st Class) in on Coleraine Borough Council for two years during this time. Rt Hon Dominic Grieve is a Barrister and has been 2009-2013), contributing to the delivery of Ireland’s last two EU Presidencies Politics and also holds a PhD in International Relations (United Nations in (2004 and 2013). He has also served as Consular Officer in the Irish Embassy the post-Cold War Era). As Minister in the Department of Justice, Claire prioritised tackling domestic the MP for Beaconsfield since 1997. He was the to Italy, Rome (1992-1996), and as desk officer to the UN General Assembly violence, rural crime and crimes against the elderly. She also wants to reduce Shadow Attorney General from 2003-09, Shadow – Third Committee (Human Rights) in 1994. During Ireland’s EU Presidency the numbers of young people and people with mental health issues coming Home Secretary from 2008-09 and Shadow Justice Mr Tony Kennedy OBE in 1996, Fergal was seconded to the EU Monitoring Mission to the Former into contact with the criminal justice system. Secretary from 2009-10. Under the Coalition Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, covering political affairs. Fergal spends his free time Mr Tony Kennedy enjoys an active retirement, Government, Dominic was the Attorney General for serving on a number of bodies in a voluntary England and Wales and the Advocate General for playing and coaching GAA, running, and providing taxi and other support Dr Anthony Soares services to his family at weekends. capacity. This includes Director of the John Hewitt Northern Ireland until July 2014. Dominic was Society, and board membership of the Centre for Dr Anthony Soares is the Deputy Director at the educated at Westminster School and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford Cross Border Studies, Arts and Business Northern Centre for Cross Border Studies, leading the Centre’s where he studied Modern History. Then he studied Law. He was called to the Prof John O’Brennan Ireland and Poleglass Community Association. When Research & Policy team. His role includes the Bar in 1980 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2008. He is a bencher Prof John O’Brennan is Jean Monnet Chair of working full time, Tony was Area Housing Manager, development and advocacy of policies at regional, of his Inn of Court, the Middle Temple. During the 1980s, Dominic served as European Integration and Director of the Maynooth North Belfast, with the Housing Executive from national and European levels that support a local councillor in Fulham. He was Chairman of the Research Committee of Centre for European and Eurasian Studies at 1974 to 1979 and Regional Director, North West, from 1979 to 1983; Chief sustainable cross-border and transnational the Society of Conservative Lawyers between 1992 and 1997. Dominic was Maynooth University, and Vice President of the Irish Housing Officer, Wakefield Council, from 1983 to 1992; and Chief Executive cooperation. This has increasingly led to elected Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee in September Association for Contemporary European Studies of Co-operation Ireland from 1992 to 2008. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE coordinating CCBS’s responses to the UK’s 2015. He has been a Member of the Standards and Privileges Committee (IACES). His main specialisation is in EU for services to cross border co-operation in Ireland. referendum on EU membership and its aftermath, publishing a series of and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Society of Conservative Enlargement policy and secondary specialisation in Briefing Papers, submitting evidence to parliamentary committees in both Lawyers from 2015 to 2017. He is the President of the Franco-British Society Ireland’s relationship with the EU. He has published Mr Earl Storey Westminster and Dublin, and consulting with a range of political and Vice-Chairman of the Franco-British Council. He is Honorary Recorder of 15 articles in international peer reviewed journals including: Cambridge representatives and organisations. Mr Earl Storey is Editor of the Church of Ireland the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, a member of the Council of Review of International Affairs , the European Foreign Affairs Review, European Gazette. He is also responsible for the Management of Ditchley Park and a Trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Political Science, the Journal of European integration and Parliamentary Protestantism: A Journey in Self-Belief project at Ms Ruth Taillon Studies. Dominic is bilingual in French. He is married to Caroline, a practising Affairs . In addition to publishing three books, he has written 25 book chapters Maynooth University (www.journeyinselfbelief.org). Barrister and they have two adult sons: James and Hugo. and been a regular contributor to international publications such as Europe’s Ms Ruth Taillon is Director of the Centre for Cross He is an IMI qualified Executive Coach. Ordained World . He has published more than 100 opinion articles on EU politics and Border Studies. Ruth has many years’ experience as a Church of Ireland clergyperson in 1982, Earl Dr Steve Aiken OBE MLA is one of the most frequent contributors to Irish media on EU issues, including working with a range of public and community- has served in both jurisdictions in Ireland. He left regular appearances on leading radio and TV shows. based organisations in both jurisdictions. Prior to Dr Steve Aiken is the Chief Whip of the Ulster active ministry in 2003 to become involved in joining the Centre, Ruth was Research Coordinator Unionist Party and is the MLA for South unionist politics, as a contribution towards reconciliation. He stood in the for Border Action, a partnership between Pobal and Antrim. Steve has had a varied career pre–politics, Mr Justin McNulty MLA Westminster and local council elections in Foyle in 2005. He stepped out of the Combat Poverty Agency, working on European including being the Chief Executive of the British Mr Justin McNulty entered the political arena in any political affiliation in 2005 to become Director of the Church of Ireland funding programmes Peace and INTERREG. She was Irish Chamber of Commerce and CEO at a major 2015 when he received more than 12,000 votes in Hard Gospel Project. This was an all-Ireland project set up in 2005 to address Director of the West Belfast Economic Forum and involved with the University. Previously he served for 30 years in the the Westminster election. He was first elected to sectarianism and living constructively with difference. In 2008 he founded management of a number of community-based initiatives throughout the Royal Navy in many senior operational roles, the Assembly in May 2016 and has been a member Topstorey Communications (www.topstorey.org). He has worked with 1990s. Ruth has also worked as an independent research and evaluation including commanding two nuclear powered of the Committee for Infrastructure. Justin has organisations as diverse as the GAA, Orange Order, development agencies, consultant, specialising in gender, equality, and peace and conflict issues. She submarines, being Joint Plans Officer for operations in the Middle-East in campaigned on and been vocal in the Assembly Churches, businesses and individuals. Earl is a board member of the Centre is currently a member of the Irish Government’s Oversight Group for the 2002-04 (for which Steve was awarded the OBE and the US Meritorious Chamber on such issues as Brexit, Newry Train for Cross Border Studies and is based in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and an expert advisory Service Medal) and working as a senior staff officer in various NATO maritime Station, Daisy Hill Hospital, broadband and the RHI group for a EU Commission study on obstacles to cross-border cooperation. operational headquarters. Steve also headed up the UK MoD’s Global scheme. Mr Owen Reidy Ruth also writes and lectures on Irish women’s history, about which she has Strategic Trends programme and worked on the UK and NATO’s security a strong personal interest. strategy, he co-authored classified studies on European Security, the High In his career in engineering, high performance and finance, Justin has built Mr Owen Reidy took up the position of Assistant North and was a lead author on the Future Character of Conflict study; a up a wide network of contacts in business and commerce from across this General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions with particular responsibility for Northern Mr Tony Connelly study which critically examined the role of western military power, hybrid island which he is determined to leverage to bring jobs and economic and asymmetric conflict and predicting the extensive use of non-state actors development to Newry and Armagh. Ireland, in November 2016. Prior to this he worked Mr Tony Connelly is Europe Editor for RTÉ, Ireland’s and modern social media in the spectrum of conflict. Steve holds a PhD and with SIPTU, Ireland’s largest trade union for 18 public broadcaster. He has been covering EU and With Brexit looming, Justin believes Newry and Armagh is arguably going to MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a MA years. During that period he represented and European Affairs from Brussels since 2001. Tony be the worst hit constituency on these islands, and is determined to ensure from KCL in Defence Studies. organised workers in both the public and private has reported extensively on the period before and that the rights of Irish citizens that are intrinsic in the Good Friday Agreement sectors. From 2013-2016 he served on the union’s after the Brexit referendum, and before that covered are protected in the aftermath of the UK leaving the EU. management team as one of SIPTU’s five Divisional Organisers leading a Mr Fergal Mythen the European refugee crisis, the Greek debt team which organised and represented 25,000 workers in the transport, situation, the Irish bail-out and the financial crisis Mr Fergal Mythen is currently Director-General, Dr Stephen Farry MLA energy, aviation and construction sectors. dating back to 2008. Tony has also reported on Ireland, UK and Americas Division of the Dr Stephen Farry is an Alliance Party MLA for North conflicts in Ukraine, Lebanon/Syria, Georgia, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Since commencing his role with the ICTU, Owen has worked with other social Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Dublin, Down. He was first elected in 2007 and has served Angola and Rwanda. He is the recipient of two ESB National Media awards, partners in Northern Ireland such as the business, farming community and having taken up this post in August 2017. He first as Minister for Employment and Learning 2011- a European Journalism Award and a New York Festivals radio award for his voluntary sectors seeking to build a consensus on Brexit. He is also involved joined the Department in 1990 and has spent 2016. He has been Alliance Party Deputy Leader radio documentary on the Shaktar Donetsk football club in Ukraine. He has in developing the roll out of the major trade union campaign, Better Work significant periods of his career working on since December 2016. Before this, he sat on North also worked for the Irish Independent, Time Magazine and United Press Better Lives which seeks to challenge low pay and insecure work, declining Northern Ireland issues, including Justice and Down Borough Council representing Abbey DEA, International (UPI). Tony is the author of Brexit and Ireland: the Dangers, the public investment and the 1% public sector pay cap. Security issues (1999-2003 and 2005-2007) and 1993-2011 and was the Mayor 2007-2008 and Opportunities and the Inside Story of the Irish Response , published by Political issues (2007-2009), as well as a secondment with the International Deputy Mayor 2002-2003. Penguin Books on October 5, 2017. His other book, Don’t Mention the Wars: Fund for Ireland (1990-1992). Fergal’s other Departmental assignments in A Journey Through European Stereotypes , was published in 2014 by New Dublin have included Deputy Director, Human Rights Unit (1997-1999), and Stephen worked as a Consultant Trainer for the National Democratic Institute Island. Tony was born in Portstewart, County Derry in 1964, and was educated Director-General, Corporate Affairs Division (2013-2017). for International Affairs in Croatia and Bosnia, completing five missions at St Columbs College, Derry, at Trinity College Dublin and the London School between 1997-2000 and was a Senior Fellow for the United States Institute of Journalism. He is married with two sons. He has also represented Ireland overseas. He served on two occasions in of Peace, 2005-2006 Ireland’s Permanent Representation to the EU, Brussels (Middle East issues