Catherine Heaney

Catherine Heaney is a consultant with 25 years’ experience in strategic communications, public affairs and stakeholder engagement.

She recently retired from her role as MD of DHR Communications, a company she founded in 2004, and has worked on influential, public-interest campaigns in areas including human rights and reproductive health.

Catherine has considerable board-level and non-executive leadership experience. In addition to her role as a chair of One in Four, she is Chairperson of the Citizens Information Board.  She has chaired the board of the National Museum of Ireland is the most recent chairperson of the Government’s Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (operated under the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation).  She has served on a range of other boards across government, charity and NGO sectors.

Catherine studied journalism at undergraduate level and criminology at postgraduate level at TUI Dublin (formerly DIT).  She holds an MPhil in Public History and Cultural Heritage from Trinity College Dublin, and she is a graduate of the prestigious Global Strategic Communications Programme at Columbia University in New York.

Catherine has served as Chief Executive of the Irish Family Planning Association and Press Officer of the Labour Party.

Niall Behan

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Niall Behan is a CEO with over 20 years of experience leading NGO’s who are focused on improving people’s lives through positive social change. He has a background in human resource management and social policy development.

He has been Chief Executive of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) since 2004. Niall is responsible for the development and implementation of the organisation’s strategic plan and is the accountable officer for the delivery of the organisation’s medical, counselling and education and advocacy departments.

Prior to working in the IFPA, Niall was the co-ordinator of a programme which secured over €200m in statutory agency investment in the Blanchardstown area and he previously worked as the Executive Director of The Employment Network, the Personal Assistant to the Minister for Social Welfare and an Associate Lecturer with the National College of Ireland.

In 1992, Niall was awarded a B.A. Industrial Relations & Personnel Management and in 1993, he was awarded an M.A. European Social Policy Analysis.

Dr. Conn Dorai-Raj

Dr Conn Dorai-Raj (MSc., D.Couns.Psych., C. Psychol., Ps SI), is a Senior Counselling & Forensic Psychologist and Chartered Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland. His professional interests include trauma intervention, forensic assessment, child forensic interviewing, and rehabilitation of offenders.

Conn received his M.Sc. in Developmental Psychopathology from Durham University, and his Doctorate in Counselling Psychology from Trinity College, Dublin. While at Trinity he received the Allen Burke Memorial prize for his research on the experience of fatherhood among gay men.

In his primary role at Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght Hospital, Conn works therapeutically with children and adolescents who have experienced sexual violence. He also conducts child forensic assessments and supports parents and carers of impacted young people.

Conn also works for Forensic Psychological Services where he carries out psychological and risk assessments for violent and sexual offending on people engaging with the criminal justice system. He has previously worked as a psychologist in the Irish Prison Service, where he had oversight of the Building Better Lives programme for sexual offending.

Emma Dennehy

Emma is the Vice President of Strategy and Key Initiatives at Inizio Advisory (formerly UDG Healthcare), where she is responsible for driving all aspects of the Inizio Advisory strategy and bringing initiatives to life, Emma also oversees the organisation’s change programme.

Prior to joining Inizio, Emma spent 10 years in Management Consulting across the UK and Ireland; as Director in EY’s People Consulting practice, Chief of Staff for EY Consulting, Ireland and Management Consultant with Accenture.

Emma holds a First Class Honours degree in Law from University College Cork (BCL International), and a Certificate in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute.

Emma joined the Board of One in Four in December 2022.

Derek Small

Derek is a senior finance executive with over 15 years’ experience in the telecommunication, cloud and medtech sectors, working from start-up level through to large multinationals. Derek has held several management positions in Financial Planning, Financial Control and Commercial Accounting throughout his career.

Derek currently works as Senior Director of Finance in Deciphex, an Irish start up in the digital pathology space. Previous to that, Derek was Finance Director for a NASDAQ quoted cloud tech company.

Derek has a degree and a masters in electronic engineering and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Dr. Sinéad Ring

Sinéad is an Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University.

Sinéad’s research explores how law and society respond to the problem of sexual violence. Her PhD was on criminal prosecutions for non-recent child sexual abuse. She has recently published (with Kate Gleeson (Macquarie) and Kim Stevenson (Plymouth) Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors. Legal Responses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia (Routledge, 2022). The book traces how child sexual abuse has been understood and governed by law since the Victorian period until the present and evaluates efforts in criminal law and tort law, as well as commissions of inquiry and redress schemes, to do justice to adult survivors reporting childhood sexual abuse.

In 2020 Sinéad was appointed by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee TD as a member of the Sentencing and Guidelines Information Committee of the Judicial Council. In 2018 Sinéad was appointed by Minister for Higher Education to Expert Advisory Group on Sexual Violence against Students, which drafted the world’s first national framework in this area, known as The Consent Framework. Sinéad continues her work in this area through her work with the Higher Education Authority’s Expert Group in Ending Sexual Violence in Higher Education.

You can find out more about Sinéad’s work here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/sin-adring

Conall Harding

Conall Harding is a HR Business Partner with Accenture Ireland. Conall’s work has involved supporting trust & safety and content moderation workforces for online platforms to protect against child sex abuse, exploitation and trafficking. Conall’s experience includes HR & Employee Relations coaching, change management, recruitment and performance management.

Conall holds an MSc in HR Management from UCD Smurfit Business School and also has certifications in HR Data Analytics and Mental Health First Aid.

Philip Lee

Philip Lee is the Executive Chairman and Partner at Philip Lee LLP. He is a leading expert in the area of procurement, competition, trade and construction law. His extensive PPP experience includes roads, waste, waste water and electricity PPP projects where he acts for both public and private bodies.

As an expert in European and Irish competition law, Philip has used his specialist knowledge and his expertise as a litigator in a variety of sectors including the construction, health, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, transport and energy sectors.

Philip has a well-established background in energy law and telecommunications regulation from his previous role as a legal advisor in the petroleum industry. He also worked as a consultant to a multinational enterprise on the application of EU and international law.
Philip is the author of “Public Procurement”, the first legal book on this topic, published by Butterworths in 1992. He has also published numerous articles on competition law and international trade.