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Biographical Notes for Members of the Open Data Governance Board (ODGB)
Aoife Sexton (Chairperson)
Aoife is the former Chief Privacy Officer and Chief of Product Innovation at Trūata and is currently Technology Counsel with PROS travel technology company.
By way of background, she is a technology and privacy lawyer with over 25 years’ experience working in and with Irish and international companies in the technology sector. Aoife is a graduate of UCD (BCL) and the College of Europe, Belgium. She is a European Advisory Board Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is CIPP/E certified. She is a lecturer on data protection law at the Law Society of Ireland’s school of law as well its post graduate courses on data protection and technology law.
Louise McKeever, Chief Information Officer, Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Louise McKeever has been the Chief Information Officer for the Irish Government since June 2026. The Government Chief Information Officer acts as the strategic advisor to Government on the digital government agenda and plays a leadership role in digital service delivery and innovation initiatives working in collaboration with and providing advice to Departments and agencies across the Civil and Public Service. In addition to leading on the development and implementation of a number of key strategies such as the new national digital and AI and data strategy and the Public Service digital and ICT strategy, and national and EU legislation, the Government CIO also provides input, support and advice in relation to the digital agenda to Ministers as well as other areas of this Department, other Departments and Public Service Bodies. The Government CIO also participates in a range of internal, national, EU and OECD working groups, steering groups. Louise was previously the Chief Information Officer and Head of Operations at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
Dr. Adegboyega Ojo
Adegboyega Ojo is Professor, Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence -- digital Government; artificial intelligence governance; data-intensive public sector innovation; policy analytics at Carlton University. Before his appointment at Carlton Univerisity he was Associate Professor of Management and Government Information Systems at Maynooth University School of Business. He was also Senior Research Fellow and Head of the E-Government Unit at the Data Science Institute, NUI Galway. He also worked at the Centre for Electronic Governance, United Nations University in Macao SAR, China, where he supported governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Adegboyega has published widely in the areas of open data, e-participation, e-government strategy and architecture, and smart cities. His current research investigates conditions for effective adoption of data-driven innovation and AI-based solutions in government and society.
Martin Quigley
Martin Quigley has over 15 years’ experience in the public, not-for-profit and social services sector. Martin is the Director of Data & Analytics with Pobal, an agency which administers funding on behalf of Government Departments through social inclusion, childcare and labour market activation programmes. He has led the development of Pobal’s data science and analytic functions, and championed the use of administrative datasets for programme and policy improvement. In 2018 Martin and his team won the award for the best use of data science in a Public Sector Body. Martin oversees the commissioning of the Pobal HP Deprivation index and supports numerous state agencies and Government Departments in using this tool to objectively target resources towards the communities most in need.
Dr. Bahareh Heravi
Dr Bahareh Heravi is a Reader in AI and Media at the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI. Her research is primarily focused on Data & Computational Journalism, data storytelling, responsible and inclusive AI, information design, and the use of AI in journalism and media. She was formerly the Assistant Professor in Information & Communication Studies in UCD and was appointed to the Board in December, 2018.
Cianan Clancy
Cianan Clancy is a technology, AI and data executive with more than 20 years of experience leading digital transformation, product innovation and data-driven growth initiatives across government, financial services, healthcare and technology sectors. Cianan currently serves as a Director and member of the Executive Committee at Shipyard Technology Ventures, where he helps build and scale AI-native businesses spanning insurance, regulatory technology, compliance, cybersecurity and enterprise software. He has led the development of AI platforms, data products and digital services used by organisations across Europe and North America.
Prior to Shipyard Technology Ventures, Cianan held senior leadership roles with Independent News & Media, Paddy Power, The Irish Data and Cloud Cluster and Accenture. He was also co-founder of Beats Medical, an award-winning digital health company whose Parkinson's disease therapy platform has been deployed in more than 50 countries.
Prof. Neil O’Hare
Neil is Prof of Health Informatics (University College Dublin) and Group Chief Information Officer for Children's Health Ireland.
A Physicist by background, he has had a strong emphasis on health informatics throughout his career including heading up many large implementation projects around clinical information systems, acting as advisor to the Department of Health and project management of a range of medical equipping projects. In 2007 he took up the role as Programme Lead on the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Project for the Health Services Executive, Ireland. This is one of the largest single PACS / RIS solution implementations in the world. He is a member of the Project Board of the HSE’s Acute EHR project.
Previously Neil has held academic appointments in Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin with research interests in health informatics, imaging and UV phototherapy dosimetry. He is the current Chair of the Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) and in 2019 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiology, RCSI, only the second non-Radiologist to be awarded such since the establishment of the Faculty in the early 1960’s.
Joan O’Connor
Joan is a non-executive director and consultant who has corporate governance, audit, finance and risk experience including chair, board and committee member appointments.
She is an experienced leader and recently retired senior partner from Deloitte with broad based strategic, policy, legal, financial services, business and tax experience. She led the Irish firm’s Technology, Social Media and Telecoms practice and worked closely with inter-alia tech multinationals and Irish based tech firms over her career.
She currently holds a number of public sector appointments including board member of the Citizens Information Board, a member of the Medical Council and NCCA audit, finance and risk committees and the Law Society Regulatory Authority complaints committee.
Joan has a M.A.(Oxon); M.A. and B.A.(TCD). She is a Fellow of the Irish Tax Institute (FITI), a Chartered Tax Adviser and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (FCA). Her post graduate research interests include the impact of EU policy on digital strategy and intellectual property law.
Declan Smyth
Declan is a Senior Statistician with the Central Statistics Office focussing on the Irish Statistical System Co-ordination/Horizontal Reports.
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