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BCL 1995

• Elected President of the Olympic Federation of Ireland in 2017 and reappointed in 2020
• CEO of Swim Ireland
• Government appointee to the Central Bank Commission

BCL 1988

• Recognised in City AM’s Power 100 Women List
• Became law firm Linklater’s first female Senior Partner in its 183-year history in May 2021
• A leading public and private M&A lawyer, Aedamar leads the Firm’s relationship with seven large international clients, including HSBC, Visa, Capita and Tate & Lyle, for whom she is a trusted Board adviser

BCL 1989

• Elected Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in late 2021, Judge O’Leary had served as a Ireland’s judge at the ECtHR from 2015 – 2021
• Prior to joining the ECtHR, Judge O’Leary worked for almost two decades at the Court of Justice of the European Union
• Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges
• Member of the Advisory Boards of the Common Market Law Review and the Irish Centre for European Law

• The first two UCD female graduates to be called to the Bar of Ireland in 1927

BA 1980, MBA 1988

•  Quin started her career with Lansdowne Market Research as a qualitative researcher before moving to the Irish Trade Board and then the Rehab Group in 1989
• CEO of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, 2000 to 2016
• President of the National College of Ireland since 2016

BComm 1970

• Former Irish Labour Party politician who served as Tánaiste and Leader of the Labour Party from 2014 to 2016
• Minister for Social Protection from 2011 to 2016
• Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2014
• Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997
• Minister of State at the Department of Social Welfare from 1993 to 1994
• Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency from 1992 to 1997 and 2002 to 2020

MBA 2002

• Appointed to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in February 2021
• Served as Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2014 to 2019)
• Ireland’s first Ombudsman for Children (2003 to 2014)
• Over twenty years management experience in Ireland and in the UK, including Director of Nursing at Crumlin Children’s Hospital and Director of Nursing at Tallaght University Hospital

BE 1986

• Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact and a Professor of Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin
• Prof Feely holds a BE degree from University College Dublin and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley
• While at UC Berkeley, she also won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
• The first Irish woman elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

TBC

• Accomplished parliamentarian and former social worker
• Frances is currently MEP for Dublin City and County
• Having held various government portfolios in her career, in 2016 she became one of only four women to ever have held the office of Tánaiste

BA 1971

• 17th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States
• A career diplomat, she also served as Ireland’s representative to the United Nations, the European Union, France and Monaco, the first woman to hold each of these positions

BA 1979

• A highly respected former political editor, author and broadcaster, winning two awards as a journalist
• Ireland’s first female Ombudsman and Information Commissioner in 2003
• Elected as European Ombudsman in 2003

BA 1970

• First female auditor of UCD’s Literary and History Society, from 1970 to 1971
• Appointed to the High Court in 2002
• Appointed judge in the Supreme Court of Ireland in 2017

BSocSc 1970

• A researcher and gender equality expert
• Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Limerick and Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute at UCD
• In 1997 Prof O’Connor became the first woman to be promoted to full professorial level at the University of Limerick 
• Appointed the first woman Dean at the University and Ireland’s first professor of Sociology

BAgrSc 1980

• Irish politician serving as the European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union since October 2020
• McGuinness previously served as First Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2017 to 2020 and is Ireland’s longest serving MEP
• In 1980 she was the first woman to qualify with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Economics from University College Dublin

MSc (Agr) Rural Development 1995

• Ambassador of Ireland to the Republic of South Africa.
• Following her graduation, she joined Trócaire, where she worked on partnerships in India, the Philippines and Timor Leste between 1995 to 2000
• Within the Department of Foreign Affairs she has worked extensively on African Affairs, most recently as Africa Director (2016-2019) and has served as Ambassador to the Republic of Tanzania (2012-2016) and Deputy Head of Mission in Ethiopia (2006-2008).

BAgrSc 1994

• CEO of the National Dairy Council, where she has been instrumental in marketing and promoting the Irish dairy category at home and abroad.
• Ireland is uniquely positioned to leverage its sustainable pasture-based system and quality standards. Ms. Kavanagh brings to the Dairy sector a unique level of commercial and marketing experience spanning the Brand, Consumer and Foodservice sectors.

PhD Agricultural Economics 2004

• Appointed as the Head of Monetary Policy at the Central Bank of Ireland in 2014, having previously held senior roles in the areas of Statistics and Financial Stability.
• Represents the Bank on range of international committees including the Monetary Policy Committee at the ECB.

BSc 1952

• Appointed lecturer in Chemistry at UCD in 1956, where she specialised in Phytochemistry, later applying her research to the Irish forestry industry
• The first woman elected as President of the Royal Dublin Society after 258 years of male presidents at the philanthropic organisation

BA 1938

• The first Irish woman to receive a PhD in Maths
• This “trail-blazing and brilliant academic” worked in UCD as an academic and was a mathematical physicist
• One of the first four women admitted to the Royal Irish Academy
• UCD unveiled a plaque in her honour in 2018

BSc 1995

• Highly decorated for her pioneering work studying bats
• Elected to Ireland’s Royal Irish Academy, in 2016
• Founded the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Mammalian Phylogenetics known as the “BatLab at UCD in 2005, and the Centre for Irish Bat Research in 2008

MVB 1986

• Starting out in veterinary practice, Dr Derwin joined the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine in 1992
• Since then she has worked as Agriculture Attaché in Madrid before becoming Chief Economist
• Appointed Assistant Secretary in 2016, becoming the first woman to serve on the Management Board of that department

MB BcH BAO 1994, MD 2005

• UCD Alumni Awardee in Science, 2018
• The first female master since the foundation of the National Maternity hospital in 1894
• Dr Rhona Mahony oversees one of Europe’s largest Maternity hospitals, delivering almost 10,000 babies each year, a busy gynaecological unit and over 800 staff

MB BcH BAO 1986, MD 1995 

• UCD Alumni Awardee in , 2019
• World-renowned expert in infectious disease
• President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland — the first woman in the role since its establishment in 1654

MB BCh BAO 1978

• After graduating from UCD, Dr McGovern won the gold medal in surgery and the silver medal in medicine, the first of many awards and honours during her outstanding career
• In 2010 she was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons, the first woman to hold the office in its history