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May 25 2010
Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
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Plus a separately bookable focus day for 2010
Flood Risk Management
May 26, 2010, Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
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| Speakers |
| Speakers at the Summit include the following: |
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John O’Shea |
| Founder, GOAL |
John O’Shea, a former sports journalist, is Chief Executive
of GOAL, the Dublin-based international
humanitarian agency he founded in 1977. Since
its foundation, GOAL has responded to every
major man-made or natural disaster, spending
in excess of €600 million on humanitarian and
developmental programmes in more than fifty
countries. Cambodia, Ethiopia, Somalia, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Rwanda,
Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan-controlled
Kashmir, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are just some of the countries
where GOAL has intervened in response to a humanitarian crisis.
O’Shea is scathingly outspoken against the often rampant
corruption and human rights abuses of political leaders in the
developing world. He lobbies constantly for donor governments
to demand both fiscal efficacy and the upholding of basic human
rights from their recipient counterparts.
He is equally scathing about what he sees as the often pathetic
response to human catastrophes of western governments and
international institutions.
O’Shea has for many years been calling for the establishment of
a multi-national rapid response body, made up of experts in all
of the requisite emergency response disciplines, which could be
despatched immediately to the site of a disaster anywhere
in the world. |
| Sean Hogan |
| National Director for Fire and Emergency Management |
 Sean Hogan is a graduate in Civil Engineering from UCD. He worked in various engineering jobs, including a period as a CONCERN volunteer in Uganda before joining the Fire Service in the aftermath of the Stardust Fire. He worked with fire services in North Tipperary and Galway, before joining the
Department of Environment, where he was later promoted to Principal Fire Adviser.
As Principal Adviser, Sean in recent years has led and overseen the Major Emergency Development Programme, the Fire Services Change Programme, community fire safety initiatives and the development of fire services infrastructure. On the establishment of the National Directorate on 22nd. June 2009, Sean was appointed as Ireland’s first National Director for Fire and Emergency Management.
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Iain Bryson |
| Head of Emergency Management Service, Gloucestershire County Council |
 Iain Bryson is Head of Emergency Management for
Gloucestershire County Council which was one
of 7 local authorities to be awarded ‘Beacon
Status’ for displaying excellence in emergency
planning in 2007.
Iain joined Gloucestershire County Council in
1990 following a previous career in the Royal Air
Force.
During his time in Gloucestershire he has been involved in the
multi-agency response to a wide range of emergencies including
Foot and Mouth Disease, fuel shortage, chemical explosions
and flooding, most recently in Summer 2007 when over 200,000
people in Gloucestershire were without water for 18 days following
the loss of a water treatment works due to flooding.
Iain is a member of the Emergency Planning Society and the
Society of Industrial Emergency Service Officers, and is chair of
the Gloucestershire Local Resilience Forum Infrastructure and
Local Authority planning groups. |
| Kathleen M. O’Toole |
| Chief Inspector, Garda Síochána Inspectorate |
 Kathleen M. O’Toole currently serves as Chief Inspector of the Garda
Síochána Inspectorate, an oversight body
responsible for bringing reform, best practice
and accountability to the 15,000 member Irish
national police service.
O’Toole began her career in 1979 as a patrol
officer in the Boston Police Department and
rose through the ranks of local and state law
enforcement in Massachusetts.
Prior to her appointment to the Irish position, she served as Boston
Police Commissioner where she managed 3000 sworn and civilian
personnel and a budget of $235 million annually. She once served
in Governor William Weld’s Cabinet as Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety, overseeing twenty agencies, more than 10,000
employees and an annual budget exceeding $1 billion.
During her police career, Kathleen O’Toole served in numerous
patrol, investigative and administrative assignments. She held the
position of Superintendent/Chief of the Metropolitan Police and
was also a Lieutenant Colonel overseeing Special Operations in
the Massachusetts State Police.
O’Toole has worked on many high-profile projects. For example,
she was a consultant to the United States Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division on police profiling cases, was a member of the
Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland as part of
the Peace Process there, and chaired the Boston Fire Department
Review Commission. In all of these instances, she developed
major reform strategies.
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| Dr Tony Holohan |
| Chief Medical Officer,
Department of Health and Children |
Dr Tony Holohan was appointed as Chief Medical Officer in
December 2008.
Dr Tony Holohan qualified from UCD in 1991
and trained initially in General Practice and
subsequently in public health medicine. He was
appointed as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at
the Department of Health and Children in 2001
where he worked on the Health Strategy,
Primary Care Strategy and National Health Information Strategy.
He has more recently worked on the new National Cancer Control
Strategy as a member of the National Cancer Forum. He is also
a member of the National Cancer Registry Board and the Health
Research Board.
He has previously been a member of the Board of the Faculty of
Public Health Medicine.
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| Dr Colin Green |
| Professor of Water Economics at Middlesex University |
Dr Colin Green is Professor of Water Economics at Middlesex University. Latterly, he acted as a specialist advisor to the House of Commons EFRA Select Committee on issues of water and flooding for their recent Inquiries into the flooding of 2007, the water industry price round, and the government’s draft floods and water management Bill.
He is also a member of the Core International Expert Group for the Hazard and Risk Science Base that has been established at Beijing Normal University under the Chinese Government’s ‘111’ programme to establish 100 centres of research excellence. He has advised a number of international agencies, including the World Commission on Dams and the World Meteorological Organisation, and acted as a consultant to the World Bank on the cost-benefit analysis of flood risk management projects. He was elected to the International Academy of Water in 2000. |
| Dr. Connor Murphy |
| Director of the MSc in Climate Change and a lecturer and researcher with the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS) |
 Dr. Conor Murphy is director of the MSc in Climate Change and a lecturer and researcher with the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units (ICARUS) based in the Department of Geography at NUI Maynooth. Conor’s main interests lie in assessing the impacts of climate change on the water sector for which he has been awarded over €1m in research grants from National and European funding agencies. He has published a number of papers in this field and completed major projects for Ireland (Climate Change: Refining the Impacts for Ireland) and further afield.
Output from Conor’s work has been referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He acted as a national reviewer for the Water Resources chapter of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC and is currently involved in developing tools for adapting to climate change in the water sector in Ireland. |
| Sean Coleman |
| Risk Consulting Leader, Marsh |
| Sean is a senior consultant of 30 years experience providing advice on risk management strategy and framework, and related areas to a number of key public and private sector clients. He has extensive experience of processes and associated hazards over a wide range of industries and businesses including textile, ICT, pharmaceutical, chemicals, paper, food and drink, engineering, hotel and leisure etc. Sean was part of a working group who drafted national guidelines on the recently published ISO 31,000 Standard. |
| John Power |
| Director General of Engineers Ireland |
 Prior to joining Engineers Ireland in September 2007 John was Head of Corporate Affairs at ESB. John has held several key positions during his time with ESB; Managing Director of ESBI Consultants, Executive Director of ESB International Services, as well as holding senior roles in Human Resources and Corporate Change. Before joining ESB, he was a Technical Advisor with General Electric in the USA and in South America.
John is a graduate of UCD, holding a Masters in Industrial Engineering and an MBA. A native of Tralee, Co Kerry, he was also Secretary of the Irish Committee of the World Energy Council from 2000 to 2009. |
| Padraig McKeon |
| Managing Director of corporate communications company Drury |
 Since joining the communications industry in the mid 1980s Padraig has worked in nearly every sector and for every type of company imaginable at some point and even managed a two year slot working in Central Europe as part of his journey. He has extensive crisis and issue management experience with particular experience in the utilities and energy sectors |
| Hilary Aldridge |
| Head of Incident Management,
Flood and Coastal Risk Management Directorate,
Environment Agency, UK |
Hilary started her career as a lawyer in
private practice specialising in commercial property
and environmental law. Hilary has always had a
very keen interest in the environment and she
jumped at the chance to join the National Rivers
Authority as the Head Office Solicitor in1992. As part of her role
Hilary worked on the creation of the new Environment Agency as
part of the Bill team. She joined the Environment Agency in 1996
and took the opportunity to move away from legal work. Hilary
has gained wide experience over the last few years as an Area
Manager, as Head of Strategic Development - seeing through the
development of the Agency’s first corporate strategy.
For the last 4 years she has held two senior policy roles in the
Environment Protection Directorate. Her major contribution over
the last couple of years has been steering the Agency’s approach
to the water company price review. From April 2009 she has
headed up the Agency’s approach to Incident Management.
She is based in Bristol in the Flood & Coastal Risk Management
Directorate. (Given Hilary’s breadth of experience and the policy
portfolio she has held, she has been the Programme Executive for
the Integrated Catchment Science Programme from its inception)
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