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Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of the Women in Leadership Organising Committee I am delighted to welcome you all here today to the first Women in Leadership Conference in University College Dublin (UCD). The concept for the Women in Leadership conference came from the UCD Musical Society’s decision to produce Legally Blonde the Musical, in an effort to promote female empowerment on campus. Since then the conference has grown from strength the strength. Today’s conference, the first of its kind to be organised by an Irish university, is designed to inspire our delegates but also to address the obstacles that women face in their careers. Many employers “talk the talk” on gender equality, yet women are far less likely to advance to management positions. Social and cultural stereotypes are still in play. Too often, women’s ideas and ambitions are not voiced or not heard. I hope that our speakers can empower each and every delegate here today to strive for success. The UCD Women in Leadership Conference brings women of all ages and backgrounds together to share stories, advice, and experiences. We strive to provide each attendee an inspirational experience through an esteemed set of speakers and Q&A sessions.
A career to be proud of
The committee has worked hard to offer a wealth of speakers and networking opportunities. You are the legacy of the future and the moves you make in the present will shape those in the future. With that idea in mind, we hope that this conference will provide a supportive platform for you to become a pioneer of your own and achieve your goals and beyond. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Richard Butler and Eoghan Murphy of UCD Societies Council, UCD Alumni in particular Jennie Blake, Michael Foley my co-event organiser for today, UCD Musical Society, Miriam King and Katie Stevens as well as my friends and family. I would like to thank our sponsors today, Arup, Citi, McKinsey & Company, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and the RCSI Institute of Leadership. Finally, I would like to thank my employers Abbott Laboratories for supporting me in organising this conference and facilitating my returning home for today from my current placement in a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Baddi, India.
Our employees tell us that they are proud to work at Arup. We give graduates from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the iconic projects, the questioning culture, access to top talent and a programme as carefully designed as our projects.
I hope that you enjoy the day and leave the conference inspired to push your boundaries forward. I would like to extend my appreciation to you for joining us and hope that you enjoy the UCD Women in Leadership Conference.
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Timetable O’Reilly Hall
The world’s city isn’t New York or London or Beijing. It’s not Lagos or Sao Paulo or Dubai. Today, the world’s city is wherever you are. Wherever you bring your ideas, drive, passion, and a hope that someone will believe in you. What if a bank made that its job? Wherever people come together to create or build something, we’re there to help make it real. For over 200 years. All around the world.
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Jacquie Marsh
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Fiona Carney Lunch - O’Reilly Hall
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Mary Carroll
Mary Aiken
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Colette Cowan
Evelyn Cusack
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Speakers Prof. Mary Aiken Professor of Cyber Analytics, Cyberpsychologist Mary is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Cyber Analytics at the Asia-Pacific Institute for Resilience and Sustainability (AIRS) at Swansea University & Hawaii Pacific University. She is the Academic Advisor (Psychology) to the European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) at Europol. Mary is a CyberPsychologist and Fellow at the Network Science Research Center (NSRC), lecturer in Criminology and Research Fellow at the School of Law Middlesex University. She is a Fellow of the Society for Chartered IT Professionals. In November 2015, Mary was appointed to the board of the Hague Justice Portal – an organisation focused on social policy issues.
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Mary’s research centres on cyber behavioural analysis. She is currently leading an international research project in conjunction with INTERPOL and a number of international police forces. She is involved in a number of Forensic CyberPsychology research areas including; organised cybercrime, cyber reporting of crime, virtual behavioural profiling, cyber analytics, human trafficking & technology, cyberstalking, cyber resilience, cyberbullying, cyber ethics, child welfare in cyberspace, personal cyber security and safety. Mary is recognized as an expert at national and European level in policy debates at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. She co-led a White House research team focused on “Tackling Technology Facilitated Human Trafficking.” In 2013 she was appointed by the Department of Communications (Republic of Ireland) to the Internet Content Governance Advisory Group. She is a spokesperson and expert contributor to the European Commission’s Safer Internet Day and an Observer to the INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children. In 2014 Mary was inaugurated into SameShield a US organisation devoted to women in law enforcement worldwide and honoring women’s leadership in traditionally closed professions. The CBS primetime show CSI:Cyber is inspired by the work of CyberPsychologist Mary Aiken. Mary is a graduate of UCD.
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Fiona Carey Director of Operations, Microsoft. Fiona Carney is Director of Operations in Microsoft. She started her career in KPMG Consulting, in the business consulting arm, and moved to Accenture staying focused on process, change management and strategy consulting. In 2007, Fiona joined Microsoft and has worked in numerous roles and functions of the business- including Customer Experience, Sales, Operations and Partner management. She is the Gender Diversity lead at Microsoft in Ireland, and is passionate about development of people and ensuring a diverse workforce.
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Fiona has spent time mentoring small businesses, and has done voluntary coaching and mentoring with NGOs (US, Mexico and Ireland). She is a qualified Executive Coach specializing in performance improvement, and business development. Fiona holds a BComm, Master’s in Business Studies from UCD, a Post Grad diploma in Marketing, and diploma in Executive coaching.
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Speakers Lt. Col. Mary Carroll Officer Commanding, An Chead Chath and Dun Uí Mhaoilíosa (Mellows Barracks), Galway Lt Col Mary Carroll, a former UCD Social Science graduate, is currently Officer Commanding, An Chead Chath and Dun Uí Mhaoilíosa (Mellows Barracks), Galway. She is the first woman to hold this prestigious appointment and, in this capacity, has responsibility for over 450 soldiers and the running of the Barracks and all training and operations conducted therein. A member of the Defence Forces for over 30 years, she has served in a range of challenging appointments at home as well as on overseas military missions in South Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and with the EU Training Mission in Somalia. She will command the An Chead Chathled deployment to Syria with United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in September 2016. She is currently one of two female Lt Cols (Line) in the Defence Forces.
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Lt Col Carroll holds a number of post graduate qualifications from a number of Irish educational institutions, including the Defence Forces Military College, focusing mainly on women’s issues and she is shortly to commence her Doctorate on the subject of Women’s Leadership. She is a graduate of the Defence Forces Command and Staff School where she completed a prize-winning thesis on this subject. She is married to Vincent and her two adult children are at present Business students in NUI Galway.
Dr. Mary Collins Senior Executive Development Specialist, RCSI Institute of Leadership Mary is a Coaching Psychologist who has been working in the Organisation Development/Talent Management field for over 14 years. Her current role with the RCSI Institute of Leadership involves working with senior leaders in the healthcare sector to develop their management and leadership capabilities through a range of executive development approaches e.g. executive coaching, 360 feedback, master classes etc. Mary is also involved in academic work with the IOL including lecturing on a range of Master’s programmes. Prior to joining RCSI, Mary was Head of Talent and Learning for Deloitte Ireland for 7 years and held a range of different OD roles in the Telecoms sector. She currently lectures part-time on a range of OD/HR topics on the MSc in Management in DCU, MSc. in Human Resource Development in NUI Maynooth. Mary also supervises research at masters and doctoral levels.
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Mary completed the Professional Doctorate Programme in Dublin City University in 2010. Her research focus was looking at enhancing the psychological contract of ‘Generation Y’ in the professional service sector to enhance performance and engagement levels. She is now a regular conference and key note speaker in this area. Mary is an Accredited Professional Executive Coach with the Association of Coaching (AC) and is qualified in the use of a range of psychometric and personality assessment instruments. She is also a Licensed Business NLP Practitioner and holds an Advanced Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy. Mary is a graduate member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). Mary is one of the authors of a book published in April 2014 with the Institute of Chartered Accountants titled ‘Managing Smart People and Other Professionals.’
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Speakers Prof. Colette Cowan CEO, UL Hospitals Group Professor Colette Cowan was appointed to Chief Executive Officer of the UL Hospitals Group in November 2014. Colette has been leading the reform agenda as the Hospital Group strives to become one of the top three teaching hospitals in the country by 2018. She brings to the role 27 years of experience in the health service. From Portumna, County Galway, Colette completed her nursing training at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, and worked there for five years as an intensive care staff nurse before moving to the then Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Nenagh. In 2007, she was appointed Director of Nursing in Nenagh, the youngest person ever in the country to have filled such a role.
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In March 2012, Colette was appointed Director of Nursing at Galway University Hospital (incorporating Merlin Park Hospital), before becoming the first Group Director of Nursing and Midwifery in the West North West Hospitals Group (now Saolta University Healthcare Group) eight months later. In that role Colette was responsible for the nursing and midwifery profession of 3500 nurses across seven hospital sites and part of an executive team leading a staff of 8000 and managing a nursing budget of €175 million. She also took a lead in the establishment of Saolta as one of the country’s first hospital groups. Since her appointment as CEO of the UL Hospitals Group, Colette has been invited to sit on a number of strategically important national bodies, including the DOHC National Maternity Strategy Steering Group, the DOHC Policy on Trauma Network for Ireland Steering Group, National Emergency Medicine Taskforce and the National Sexual Abuse Steering Group. Colette is adjunct Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at NUI Galway. She is currently studying for an MSc in Business and Management at the Institute of Public Administration.
Evelyn Cusack Deputy Head of Forecasting, Met Éireann Evelyn was born in Clonaslee, Co Laois and is the middle child in a family of seven. She followed her sister Anne and brother Denis into UCD Science and went on to get a Master’s Degree in Physics. Evelyn is known countrywide for her weather broadcasts on RTE TV and radio but is also Deputy Head of Forecasting in Met Éireann. Despite the often bad weather, Evelyn is best loved for her cheerful and friendly style and was voted recently ‘Ireland’s favourite weather forecaster’.
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In particular Evelyn is appreciated for her clear explanations of complex meteorological situations. She enjoys meeting the farmers every year at the National Ploughing Championships and finds their feedback essential to improving the Met Éireann forecast and farming service. She also attends the BT Young Scientists Exhibition every January and has great fun chatting and encouraging the lively teenagers. Evelyn gives public lectures and talks to packed houses and also helps run The Irish Meteorological Society. In recognition of her work in promoting the Public Understanding of Science she was the recipient of the inaugural UCD Alumni Award in Science in 2014.
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Judge Verona Lambe Specialist Judge of the Circuit Court
Prof. Orla Feely Vice President for Research, Innovation & Impact - UCD Orla Feely is Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact and a Professor of Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin. She holds a BE degree from University College Dublin and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where her PhD thesis won the DJ Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding and innovative research. While at UC Berkeley, she also won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. She leads a research group in nonlinear circuits and has been awarded research grants and prizes from a number of national, international and industry sources. Professor Feely is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Engineers Ireland and the Irish Academy of Engineering. She received the 2015 Distinguished Graduate Award of UCD Engineering Graduates Association and the ESB Award for Outstanding Contribution to Engineering. She has served as Chair of the Irish Research Council and of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, and as a member of a number of Editorial Boards. She is a director of the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.
Caroline Keeling CEO, Keelings Caroline Keeling is the CEO of Keelings. Keelings is a 100% Irishowned family business which started producing fruits and salads on their farm in the 1930’s supplying produce to local Dublin markets. Keelings are focused on growing and sourcing the best fresh produce from around the world. The Company has expanded to its current size with 5 divisions – Keelings Retail, Keelings Farm Fresh, Keelings Market, Keelings International and Keelings Solutions. Keelings is headquartered in FoodCentral, Co. Dublin, Ireland but has operations around Ireland, in the UK, Europe and Asia. Keelings employs approximately 2,000 people and has sales of over €300m. Keelings launched its branded range of produce into stores in 2010 and since then it has gone from strength to strength. Kantar Worldpanel recently disclosed the Top 100 FMCG brands in Ireland, ranking Keelings at #22 this year. As well as the standard range of punnets, the brand has also released a number of innovative products including the family platter, the twin pack and the Snack Pot range. As well as fresh produce, Keelings has developed produce-specific ERP software solutions, consultancy and management services. Keelings Solutions supplies a suite of software and services that provides industry focused solutions in procurement, stock management, warehouse and production planning, as well as sales and quality assurance. Caroline has a BSc (Chem) & MSc in Food Science which she obtained from University College Dublin (UCD). Caroline started her career with Green Isle foods from 1992 – 1994, going on to join Keelings as Technical Manager in 1994, becoming Group MD in 2006. Caroline is an Ambassador for The Women’s Fund for Ireland, is a member of the Export Trade Council and also sits on the Bord Bia Board.
Judge Verona Lambe attended University College Dublin, obtaining an Arts Degree in Politics and Economics in 1980. Following her degree, she worked and studied as a trainee Accountant with Craig Gardner, now Price Waterhouse Coopers, Accountants, between 1980-1981. On realising that working in an Accountancy practice was not for her, she obtained a Higher Diploma in Education in 1982 and thereafter taught Commerce, Business Organisation and Accountancy at Secondary school level. She then qualified as a Solicitor in 1988, working in private practice from 1988-1993. She gained considerable experience in various aspects of legal practice acting for private clients at a time when it was the norm for families to have a family Solicitor. Having developed a particular interest in the area of family law, she worked as a Solicitor with the Legal Aid Board between 1993-2000. In 1994 she was appointed to the position of Solicitor in Charge of a new Law Centre in Portlaoise and as such was instrumental in setting up the new Law Centre for Counties Laois and Offaly. In 1997 she undertook the same task in establishing a new Law Centre in Newbridge to provide legal services for County Kildare. In 2000, she returned to private practice in Newbridge until her appointment as County Registrar for County Offaly in 2001. As County Registrar she performed quasi-judicial functions in the Circuit Court. She had responsibility for the management of the Circuit Court office and was Sheriff for County Offaly. She was also Dail Returning officer for the Constituency of Laois-Offaly for national elections and referenda. She was appointed a Specialist Judge of the Circuit Court in July 2013.
Elaine Lavery & Hannah O’Reilly Founders, Improper Butter Since leaving UCD in 2012, best friends Elaine Lavery (BBL 12) and Hannah O’Reilly (BComm 12) have converted their shared love of food into Improper Butter, a start-up business that now supplies products to Tesco and SuperValu stores in Ireland, as well as to the UK and the Middle East. Lavery and O’Reilly met in 2009 when they were both part of the UCD Choral Scholars chamber choir. By the time they graduated, Lavery had interned with Goldman Sachs in London and Deloitte in Dublin while O’Reilly had gained experience working in her accountant father’s office. They saw a lot of their classmates coming out of Quinn going down the accountancy and finance routes but that didn’t appeal to either of them. Separately, they each took a year out. Lavery pursued her love of cooking and went to work as a chalet chef in the French Alps. O’Reilly studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, training to be a soprano. At the end of the year, Lavery knew she wanted to continue working in the food area. O’Reilly was at a crossroads. When Lavery told O’Reilly about her business idea, O’Reilly jumped at the chance to come on board. Lavery’s idea for the business was flavoured butters to be used in cooking and in June 2013, the pair started experimenting with different variations, making them up in the kitchen at home, and selling them at farmers’ markets. Based on customer feedback at the markets the pair settled on a range of flavours for retail. Manufacturing is now outsourced to a 90,000 square foot state-of-the art premises in the heart of Ireland. Improper Butter stands out because of its quality and the fact that it uses real Irish butter together with a high concentration of fresh herbs.
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Speakers Jacquie Marsh Managing Director, The Butler’s Pantry Born in County Meath, Jacquie Marsh had a strong sense of entrepreneurship from both parents. Her mother moved from Dublin and ran a farm and her father grew the small family clothing manufacturing business to a successful export business until his untimely death at the age of 45. Following a BA in History and Politics from UCD, Jacquie’s first exposure to the food business was as a management graduate with McDonalds during their growth phase in the early 80’s. She then focused on companies in a growth/diversification phase such as Next and PJ Carrolls plc. Jacquie occupied a very diverse range of positions but business growth and development and pursuit of excellence were always the central theme. Jacquie then spent 10 years consulting high potential start-up businesses until in 2000 the opportunity arose to acquire a share in a company which she believed had huge potential and to which she could apply her expertise in business development, marketing and operational excellence. As Managing Director of The Butler’s Pantry, Jacquie has developed The Butler’s Pantry into a leading premium fresh food brand. The Butler’s Pantry employs almost 100 people across its 10 shops and kitchen facility and is again in a growth phase experiencing positive trends in sales, growth and profitability.
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The company has been the recipient of numerous awards including SFA Small Business Award at the Bord Bia Food and Drink Awards and the National Retailer of the Year Award from the Small Firms Association. In addition to this, The Butler’s Pantry has been a Gold Star Winner at the Great Taste Awards multiple times, it has won at the Blas na hEireann food awards three years running and has been a Bridgestone award winner since 2004.
The RCSI Institute of Leadership is Ireland’s only third level institution dedicated exclusively to developing the leadership, management and educational capacity of health professionals and their organisations. Here at the Institute, we believe that excellent management skills can be developed and that leadership is something that can be learned.
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Our mission is to improve human health through the development of excellent leaders and managers in the health professions.
Director, National Doctors Training and Planning, HSE Eilis is from Mountcharles in Co Donegal, went to secondary school in St Louis Convent Monaghan, and graduated from UCD Medical School in 1978. She spent 6 years training as a cardiothoracic surgeon, including a year as a fellow in the Mayo Clinic, USA. In 1987 she was appointed as a consultant to the Mater/St James’s Hospitals. She led the team which successfully bid for, and subsequently developed, a new cardiac surgery unit in Dublin and in 2000 moved fulltime to St James’s as director of the programme there. This involved overseeing everything from the commissioning of the new facilities, to the recruitment of 100 staff and the carrying out of the first open-heart operations.
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Our Academic Programmes: • MSc in Healthcare Management • MSc in Quality & Safety in Healthcare Management • MSc in Leadership Other Programmes: • Executive Development Programmes • Bespoke Leadership Development Programmes • Consultancy & Research
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Eilis was elected a Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1993, and was elected President in 2010, the first female president since the founding of the college in 1784. In 2012, she moved to her current fulltime post in the HSE as Director of the National Doctors Training and Planning unit. This role involves oversight of specialist medical training and trainee doctors, medical workforce planning and consultant appointments. She has received several honorary awards including Fellowships of the American, English and Edinburgh Colleges of Surgery, as well as Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and a DSc from her alma mater UCD. Eilis is married to Joe Duignan, a general surgeon, and they have 2 daughters, both of whom have followed their parents into the medical profession.
Our programmes are participative and interactive. We encourage individuals to develop themselves and their organisations.
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Speakers Cecilia Ronan CAO, CSC Dublin Site Head, Citi Cecilia Ronan is the Chief Administrative Officer for Citi Ireland with responsibility for the Citi Service Centre with over 1900 O&T employees and also oversees Marketing and Public Affairs. Cecilia is an executive director of Citibank Europe Plc and is a member of the entity’s Board, Audit Committee and Management Committee as well as chairing the Related Party Lending Committee. She has responsibility for the oversight and governance of outsourcing for Citibank Europe Plc. Cecilia has been with Citi since 2000 in a variety of roles and prior to that she worked in Microsoft in Ireland and in governmental and non-governmental organisations in Africa. Cecilia has a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from University College Dublin and a Masters (MSc) in HR from Leicester University. Cecilia is a member of the Board of the National College of Ireland.
Bairbre Stewart Director, Post-Contract Management – IBM Global Technology Services Bairbre Stewart is a Director in IBM’s Services Integration Hub, located at the IBM Technology Campus in Dublin. In her role, she works with the leaders of IBM Account teams across Europe, Latin America and Canada assuring the Operational and Financial performance of Services Contracts and Solutions in the periods immediately after contract signature. Following an Arts degree in Politics, Economics and History from UCD in 1980, Bairbre embarked on her Chartered Accountancy studies and subsequently joined IBM Ireland’s Finance Department, where she held management positions across Hardware, Software and Services. In January 1997, Bairbre was one of the first two Irish employees to work on the IBM Technology Campus in Dublin, established to manufacture for IBM’s Microelectronics, Storage Systems and Server Divisions. She moved from Finance to Manufacturing and led fit-out projects and the implementation of controls and management systems there, before taking the post of Financial Controller for the entire site. In 2004 Bairbre accepted an assignment as Executive Assistant to the Controller of the Corporation at IBM’s Headquarters in New York. She returned to Europe as Director of Internal Audit for Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Latin America. Leaving Finance in 2008, Bairbre joined IBM Global Technology Services, IBM’s division which designs, builds and runs the IT infrastructure which is the backbone of world commerce. Within this division, she has held leadership positions in Service Delivery, Security Compliance, Asset and Risk Management, Complex Opportunity Support and Cloud Computing before joining the Services Integration Hub in her current role.
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UCD Alumni Relations UCD alumni are the backbone of UCD. Their successes reinforce UCD’s position as Ireland’s leading global university; their loyal involvement with their alma mater shapes its future. It is wonderful to see our female graduates celebrated here today in such numbers – both as speakers and as attendees. We believe that education lasts a lifetime and that the friends you meet in UCD will stay with you throughout your career. The key focus of UCD Alumni Relations is to help our graduates keep in touch with classmates and the wider UCD community by building a life-long mutually beneficial relationship to keep you informed and engaged through events, reunions, communications and a volunteering programme.
What we offer Events and Reunions where you can reconnect with classmates Regular communications on relevant alumni news and UCD through our e-zine eConnections and our alumni magazine “UCD Connections”. Opportunities to build your UCD community online through our alumni network and communities – Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter Enhance your professional opportunities via networking and mentoring
How to get involved with UCD We regard our alumni as key flag carriers for our reputation and we hope you can help us by becoming a UCD Ambassador. There are multiple ways that UCD alumni can help us to strengthen our impact and to contribute to the lives of current students Give a keynote address or participate on a panel at a UCD event Provide career mentoring for students and alumni Facilitate introductions for senior UCD staff to your company Organise class reunions and networking events Champion UCD to potential students Offer internships and hire students through your company Donate to the UCD Champions Scholarship campaign “We would like to engage with our alumni as much as we can; it is through the support of alumni that we will be able to achieve the standing on the world stage that UCD really deserves” UCD President, Professor Andrew Deeks
Date for your diary UCD Festival on June 18th, Belfield Campus University College Dublin invites you to Belfield to the first ever UCD Festival taking place on June 18th 2016. To find out more go to www.ucd.ie/alumni/festival
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