
Executive committee
The Earth Institute's executive committee consists of the director and deputy directors, management team and research theme leads and is the main decision-making body of the Institute.






















Management team
- Institute manager: Will Fitzmaurice | (opens in a new window)email
- Research manager: Caitriona Devery | (opens in a new window)email
- Innovation officer: Antonio Soler | (opens in a new window)email
Research Culture, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Aura Istrate | Chair | UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
- Paula Carroll | UCD School of Business
- Caitriona Devery | UCD Earth Institute
- Sujit Karki | UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
- Louise Dunne | UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
- Darren O’Connell | UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science
External Advisory Board
- Frank Convery | Chair | UCD and Envecon, Ireland
- Larry O’Connell | Deputy chair | National Economic and Social Council, Ireland
- Elizabeth Bomberg | University of Edinburgh, UK
- Lucas Joppa | Microsoft, USA
- Imelda Lambkin | Enterprise Ireland, Ireland
- Marie Stenseke | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Past senior members of Institute
Former senior members of the Institute, and earlier iterations of the Institute, include:
- Chris Bean | Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (former Institute director)
- Micheal Bruen | UCD School of Civil Engineering
- Peter Clinch | UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy (former Institute director)
- Frank Convery | UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, Emeritus (former Institute director)
- Philip Crowe | UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
- Tasman Crowe | UCD UCD Vice-President for Sustainability
- Shane Donohue | UCD School of Civil Engineering
- Fiona Doohan | UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Angela Feechan | UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
- Ainhoa Gonzalez | UCD School of Geography
- Mary Harty | UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
- Frank McDermott | UCD School of Earth Sciences
- Sonia Negrao | UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Eugene O'Brien | UCD School of Civil Engineering
- Kevin O'Connor | UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science
- Gregory O'Hare | Trinity College Dublin (former Institute director)
- Olaf Schmidt | UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
- Mark Scott | UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
- Emma Teeling | UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Graeme Warren | UCD School of Archaeology
- Nessa Winston | UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice
- Jon Yearsley | UCD School of Biology and Environmental Policy