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Re-appointments to the Board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland
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Mr Gerry McCurdy
Mr Gerry McCurdy has more than 40 years’ experience working in a policy and regulatory environment dealing with food safety, public health, and consumer protection. He qualified as an environmental health officer at the University of Ulster in 1978 and went on to attain a Master of Science Degree in 1991. He has held a number of senior positions in local and central government and was instrumental in setting up the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Northern Ireland.
As Northern Ireland Director of the FSA he developed close working relations with the FSAI and the Food Safety Promotion Board. Following his retirement in 2013, Mr McCurdy has worked as a food safety consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and for the World Bank, on projects in Bosnia and Bangladesh. Mr McCurdy has considerable experience at Board level and is currently a member of the FSAI Board and Chair of its Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. He is also the Deputy Chief Commissioner for the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, a Board Member of the Northern Ireland Consumer Council and a member of their respective audit and risk committees.
Mr McCurdy is re-appointed from the 21st May 2022 to the 20th May 2027.
Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan
Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan MB, BCh, BAO, DCH, DObs, MPH, FFPHM is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine. She has worked as Director of Human Health and Nutrition at safefood (Food Safety Promotion Board) and as Specialist in Public Health Medicine in the Health Service Executive. Dr Foley-Nolan has a medical degree from University College Cork (UCC); a Master’s in Public Health from University College Dublin and is a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.
Dr Foley-Nolan holds a senior lecturer post in UCC and is a trainer and examiner at the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. She has served on a number of national advisory groups including the National AIDS Advisory Group; tuberculosis; immigrant health; food poverty; and antimicrobial resistance. She has served on the Boards of the Veterinary Council of Ireland; Obesity Policy Groups in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; the Faculty of Public Health Medicine in the Royal College of Physicians; and the Heath Research Board Centre for Diet and Health.
Dr Cliodhna Foley- Nolan is re-appointed from the 7th of October 2022 until the 6th of October 2025.