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EAMONN SINNOTT

Eamonn Sinnott is Vice President Technology and Manufacturing Group at Intel Corporation and the General Manager of Intel in Ireland.

Joining Intel in 1991, he has held a variety of management positions in Ireland and in the USA prior to his appointment as General Manager of Intel Ireland in 2010 and where he was instrumental in securing the record $7 billion upgrade to the Leixlip campus. This has enabled the production of Intel’s leading edge process technologies and products from Ireland.

Eamonn is passionate about the intersection between technology and creativity and plays a leadership role in supporting innovative initiatives such as the Ireland’s Edge conference aimed at encouraging more integrated policy across arts, science, technology and learning.

Eamonn is a former President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland and is a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering and currently chairs the Mid-East Action Plan for Jobs and is a member of IBEC’s Technology Ireland board. Eamonn is also a member of the Institute of Directors in Ireland.

Eamonn received an MBA from University College Dublin in 2000 and a Bachelor of Science from Trinity College in 1986. In 2015, Eamonn was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Dublin Institute of Technology.

Professor Andrew J Deeks, Eamonn Sinnott, Professor Tony Brabazon

DR GARRET FITZGERALD

Dr. Garret FitzGerald is the McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he chairs the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and directs the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.

Dr. FitzGerald’s research has been characterized by an integrative approach to elucidating the mechanisms of drug action, drawing on work in cells, model organisms and humans. His work contributed fundamentally to the development of low-dose aspirin for cardioprotection. FitzGerald’s group was the first to predict and then mechanistically explain the cardiovascular hazard from NSAIDs.

He has also discovered many products of lipid peroxidation and established their utility as indices of oxidant stress in vivo. His laboratory was the first to discover a molecular clock in the cardiovascular system and has studied the importance of peripheral clocks in the regulation of cardiovascular and metabolic function.

Dr. FitzGerald has received the Boyle, Coakley, Harvey and St. Patrick’s Day medals, the Lucian, Scheele and Hunter Awards, the Presidential Award for the Irish Abroad and the Cameron, Taylor, Herz, Lefoulon-Delalande, and Schottenstein Prizes. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society.

Professor Andrew J Deeks, Dr Garret FitzGerald, Professor Orla Feely

PROF EDMOND HARTY

Edmond Harty is the CEO and Technical Director of Dairymaster. Prof Harty has a strong background in engineering and science and is regarded as one of the world’s pioneers in agricultural technology. He has an impressive track record of combining leading research with successful commercialisation of the resulting intellectual property. He has filed over 90 patent applications and developed a multi-disciplinary innovation focused company of more than 350 people. He has received many international awards for his research and is a former EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Professor Andrew J Deeks, Professor Edmond Harty, Professor David FitzPatrick

DR DES RICE OBE

Dr Des Rice is a veterinarian who specialised in livestock nutrition. After 2 years in veterinary practice in Ireland, he spent 4 years developing a Veterinary Investigation Laboratory in El Salvador. Dr Rice then focused on nutritional-disease research in Belfast for 10 years, obtaining a PhD. He has co-authored close to 100 scientific publications. He co-founded 2 businesses that for 18 years advised farmers, veterinarians, feed manufacturers, and food processors. For services to the Agrifood Industry he received an OBE from the British Government in 2004. He retrained as a Business Coach and psychotherapist and now provides coaching and mentoring services on strategic, human-behaviour and stress management issues to many businesses and to various community groups including veterinary-peer-supporters, on a voluntary basis.

Professor Andrew J Deeks, Dr Des Rice, Professor Michael Doherty

Brian O’Driscoll

Excellence: It’s in our DNA
The drive, skill and commitment of our graduates make us what we are. Their fire to be world class sets new standards for us all to follow.

Brian O’Driscoll is a former professional Rugby Union player who captained and played for Leinster, Ireland and The Lions over a period of fifteen years.

In 2009 Brian o driscoll received the UCD Foundation Day Medal for his outstanding sporting achievements, courage, commitment, creativity and determination he demonstrated on the field of play. His sporting achievements are a great source of pride for UCD. Throughout his career Brian has stood out as one of the finest ambassadors not only for the game of rugby but for Irish sportsmanship generally.

He is an Irish rugby hero and Captain of the most successful Irish rugby team in a generation. He was awarded a sports scholarship to University College Dublin, where he completed a diploma in Sports Management in 1998.

Born in Dublin on 21 January 1979, Brian O’Driscoll played his first rugby match at 11 years of age for Willow Park where he finished his primary education, before moving on to Blackrock College where he developed a passionate interest in rugby. In 1996, he achieved international recognition when he gained 3 caps for Irish schools. While at UCD he progressed from the university under 20’s team to the senior team in his first year under the direction of John McClean.

His career statistics speak for themselves with 11 titles, 327 games played, 561 total points scored and 108 tries scored. In 2009 Brian O Driscoll led an unbeaten season to claim the Triple Crown, the Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam for Ireland for the first time in 61 years in Cardiff’s Millennium stadium on 21st March.

Brian retired from professional sport in 2014 and currently works in a number of capacities in the Business and Sporting world.

Brian - sports — Brian O'Driscoll playing for UCD RFC vs Corinthians in 1998

Six nations cup — Brian O’Driscoll lifting the Six Nations cup.

Maeve Binchy

Creativity: It’s in our DNA
The imagination and talent of our graduates make us what we are. Their extraordinary view of the world changes ours every day.

Maeve Binchy one of Ireland’s best loved writers completed a BA in 1959 and a Higher Diploma in Education at UCD before working as a teacher. She went on to write for The Irish Times and was appointed women’s editor in 1968.

In 2006, Maeve was awarded the UCD Foundation Day Medal in recognition for her great achievement, enormous skill and outstanding contribution to continuing the great Irish tradition of storytelling. In her books Maeve explored the depths of the human personality and the complexities of human life, with gentleness and humour but also with acute observation.

Her achievement as a writer is immense, she was the doyenne of the wave of Irish female popular fiction authors who followed in her wake. Her books have been translated into 30 languages, and worldwide sales of her books stand at over 40 million copies. Starting with Light a Penny Candle in 1982, and continuing with Echoes, The Lilac Bus, Circle of Friends, the Glass Lake, Tara Road, Nights of Rain and Stars and Whitethorn Woods, many of them are now hugely successful films.

Maeve passed away in July 2012 following a short illness – UCD continues to honour her memory through the Maeve Binchy Travel Award and with events like the Remembering Maeve event at the UCD Festival in 2016 attended by over 700 friends and fans, demonstrating her lasting legacy.

Maeve Binchy medal — Gordon and Maeve Binchy

Maeve and Gordon — Gordon and Maeve Binchy

Dr Catherine Day

Dr Catherine Day has had an astounding impact on the European Union landscape. Since graduating from UCD with a BA in 1974 and a Master of Arts in International Trade and Economic Integration in 1975, she has carried out incredibly influential work within the EU, resulting in an honorary Doctorate in Law from UCD in 2004.

Dr Day joined the European Commission in 1979 and the cabinet of Ireland’s Richard Burke in 1982. This started a 14-year unbroken run in four cabinets. By 1996, as Deputy Chef de Cabinet to Britain, she was responsible for developing a new transatlantic agenda, as well as looking after the Balkans, Cyprus, and Malta. In 2014, Day received an award from the President of Ireland for her distinguished service to the Irish abroad. One of only three women to hold a position as Director General in the Commission, Dr Day has recently stepped down as the Secretary General of the European Commission after 15 years.

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