is the Director of the Undergraduate Business programme and Associate Professor of Public Management at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research is focused on complex public service systems and the dynamics of performance. She is a principal investigator of Trinity Haus - a research centre engaged in innovative solutions for buildings, neighbourhoods and cities, and is also involved in research and management in the non-profit sector as a principal investigator in the Centre for Social Engagement. Prof. Rhodes has published numerous articles on housing as a complex adaptive system and her most recent book was on Complexity and Public Management published by Routledge in 2011Her current research is on the nature and dynamics of performance management and social finance and is developing research on social entrepreneurship, social impact and well-being. She has been a member of the Board of Directors in several non-profit housing organisations in Ireland, including Cluid and the Simon Communities, and is currently on the Board of the Housing Finance Agency. She completed her PhD in Public Management at Trinity College in 2008 and her MBA at Wharton, Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1990. She also has an MSc from the London School of Economics in Systems Analysis & Design.

is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University College Dublin where her teaching includes comparative charity law and policy. A graduate of UCD and Yale Law School and a qualified barrister, her research appraises the potential for the development of more structured legal relationships between the State and the non-profit sector from the joint perspectives of regulation of the sector and facilitation of its work in a comparative context. A former Fulbright Scholar and holder of an Emerging Scholar Award from ARNOVA (2006), Oonagh was awarded an ICNL/Cordaid Distinguished Research Award in 2008 for her work in the area of European regulation of charitable organizations. She has published extensively in the field of charity regulation both nationally and internationally and has participated actively in policy processes leading to the reform of charity law in Ireland. A former Research Fellow at the Hauser Centre for Non-Profit Organizations, Harvard University (2009), she is a serving Board Member of the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law, Washington DC, and of the International Society of Third Sector Research. In 2016 she was named as a Potter Foundation Fellow to the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Non-profit Studies, QUT, Brisbane.

is Chief Executive of the Scottish Housing Regulator, the regulator of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and local authority housing services in Scotland. Established in April 2011, the Scottish Housing Regulator is independent of government, directly accountable to the Scottish Parliament and has a statutory objective to protect the interests of tenants and people who use services provided by social landlords. Michael leads the Regulator’s 56 employees and has an annual operating budget of just under £4,000,000. Michael’s career has centred on the provision of social housing for the last 25 years. Since 2000 Michael has worked in the inspection and regulation service of the Scottish Housing Regulator and its predecessor organisations. Michael was educated at the University of Glasgow where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree and later his Master of Philosophy in Housing Studies. Amongst other executive education achievements, Michael has completed the Strategic Management of Regulatory & Enforcement Agencies Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

is Director of Services, Housing and Community Department, Fingal County Council. Fingal is Ireland's fastest growing county both in economic and population terms, located in north Dublin. As Director of Services in the Housing and Community Department, Margaret is a key members of the Council's Management Team, responsible for Housing Strategy, Housing Needs Assessment and the management of the Council's 4,5000 social housing units. Margaret is also responsible for libraries, community development and facilities, arts, culture and sports.

Margaret has over 30 years of experience working with Local Government in key leadership roles including Housing, Tourism and HR in Dublin City. Margaret is also a member of a number of sub-committees of the Local Government Management Agency and the Dublin Social Housing Delivery Task Force. She also participates in the Dublin Housing Directors Forum and the National Local Authority Housing Directors Forum.

joined the Shareholding Management Unit (SMU) of the Department of Finance in 2012 and is part of a team that is responsible for the management of the shareholdings of the Minister for Finance in the banking sector – including Allied Irish Banks (AIB), Bank of Ireland (BOI) and Permanent TSB (PTSB) as well as managing the Ministers interests in relation to the oversight of NAMA. The Unit is responsible for developing plans to optimise the value of the State’s holdings in the Irish banking sector. It also manages oversight of the on-going restructuring of the Irish banking system and the Department of Finance’s day-to-day interaction with the banks on an arm’s length basis. Prior to joining the SMU Ronan spent 18 years in the banking industry including 14 years in AIB Capital Markets where he held a number of positions in their Global Treasury and Structured Finance divisions.

has more than 26 years of experience in banking with specialisms in the areas of finance, credit, collections, risk management and internal audit. His experience also encompasses compliance, strategic planning, financial planning, risk assessment, operational and financial controls and due diligence reviews. He is Central Bank of Ireland approved for Fitness & Probity requirements and is Chairman of the board of directors of Imagine Reinsurance (a regulated reinsurer) and an independent non-executive director for ARP Halkin ()an IFSC regulated fund for DAnish second lien mortgages).

Gerry also works in business consultancy and public practice at partnership level specialising in providing risk and project management and advisory services. He originally worked with Ernst & Young, where he gained his accounting training and qualification. He then spent 20 years in the financial services industry in senior roles with National Irish Bank, Irish Life, and Irish Life and Permanent that ranged from Financial Controller, Head of Finance, Head of Strategy and Group Corporate Lending Manager, through to General Manager reporting directly to the Chief Executive in all of his roles. He received a Bachelor of Commerce and Diploma in Professional Accounting from University College Dublin and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (FCA).

CEO of the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) - the national housing federation of housing associations in Ireland with 270 members providing housing for families, older people, the homeless, and people with disabilities. Over the last 25 years Donal has worked in housing development, housing management, finance and regeneration roles in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Ireland in both the public/local authority and housing association sectors. He formerly held the roles of President of the European Housing Forum, FEANTSA, and the non-profit housing section of CECODHAS-Housing Europe, the EU Social Housing Federation. From 2003-2005, Donal was appointed a member of the UN-ECE-Task Force on Social Housing. He has also represented the ICSH and the housing association sector on various national Government housing bodies and boards. He is currently a member of the Dublin Social Housing Task Force and National Oversight Group as part of the Social Housing Strategy. Donal is a graduate of housing and industrial studies from the University of Ulster and a graduate in Urban Design from Strathclyde University School of Architecture. He has completed his Doctorate in Governance from Queens University Belfast, School of Law.