Dr Ruth BarringtonNCRC Board Chair
Dr Barrington is a director of the Voluntary Health Insurance Board and a member of the Press Council of Ireland. She is the Chair of TREOIR, the federation of services for unmarried parents; the Chair of the Council of the National Children’s Research Centre; and Chair of the St John of God Research Foundation. She is a director of the Children’s Medical Research Foundation and the Daniel O’Connell Summer School.
She was chief executive of Molecular Medicine Ireland from 2007-2012 and of the Health Research Board from 1998 to 2007. She previously served as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health.
From 2002 to 2012 she was a governor of The Irish Times Trust, serving as Chair of the Trust from 2010 to 2012. She was a director of the Board of Irish Times Ltd. from 2008-2012. She was previously a Director of TASC, a not-for-profit research organisation dedicated to reducing economic inequalities and improving the quality of democracy in Ireland.
She is a graduate of University College Dublin and the College of Europe, Bruges and was awarded a PhD from the London School of Economics in 1985. She was awarded an honorary degree in laws by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in May 2005.
Dr Ruth BarringtonNCRC Board Chair