Appointments to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland:

Following a Public Jobs campaign, The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, has appointed the following members to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) with effect from 20 February 2025 until 19 February 2028.

Martin Blake

Martin Blake is a former Chief Veterinary Officer of Ireland where he had policy and operational leadership responsibilities in the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, across the One Health One Welfare area - including animal health, animal welfare, food safety, veterinary public health and related matters. Martin has direct experience in the areas of policy formulation, regulation, operational management, organisational change, stakeholder engagement, international engagement and negotiation, audit, risk management and contingency planning/crisis response. He served as Ireland’s delegate to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) from December 2011 to January 2025. He has served on several boards including the Veterinary Council of Ireland, the Irish Equine Centre, the WOAH Platform for Animal Welfare for Europe and the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD), which he chaired from 2019 to 2022. Martin is a graduate of University College Dublin with a primary degree in veterinary medicine and a master’s degree in business administration.

Carol Lynch

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