Brid Horan

Brid Horan

Brid Horan was appointed to the DCU Governing Authority in September 2014 and is a member of the Audit Committee.

Brid is an Independent Non-executive Director of FBD Holdings plc, a Director of Chamber Choir Ireland and the Dublin Theatre Festival and a member of the Council of the Irish Management Institute.

In June 2014  she was appointed by the Minister for Education to the Expert Group to examine funding options for Higher Education. She is a member of the 30% Club Ireland Steering Committee and a mentor on the WXN Wisdom Top 25 Mentoring Programme.

In October 2014 Brid retired from her role as Deputy Chief Executive of ESB, having spent eight years on the ESB Executive Team. Prior to joining  ESB as Group Pensions Manager in 1997, Brid headed KPMG Pension & Actuarial Consulting. She previously served on the Board of the IDA (1996 – 2006) and as a Commissioner of the National Pensions Reserve Fund (2001 – 2009) and was a member of the 2014 Strategic Review Group for the Arts Council.

Brid is a Chartered Director and Fellow of the Institute of Directors, and Actuary and Fellow of the Irish Institute of Pension Management.