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2020 Committee

Membership of 2020 Committee

Committee Chairman

• Dr Sean Brady

SSB and AHI Chairs

• Dan Brown, Chair, Bord Bia
• Noel Cawley, Chair, Teagasc, & Chair, Seafood Ind. Strategy Review Group
• Rose McHugh, Chair, BIM,
• Mike Magan, Chair, AHI,
• Noel Groome, Chair, Foras Orgánach,
• Jim Fennell, Chair, Marine Institute

Farm Organisations Presidents

• IFA - John Bryan
• ICMSA - Jackie Cahill
• ICOS - Pat McLoughlin
• ICSA - Gabriel Gilmartin
• Macra - Michael Gowing
• William Keane - 2009 FBD Young Farmer

Food Industry Chief Executive/Senior Manager

• Larry Murrin - Food and Drinks Industry Ireland (FDII), (Dawn Farm Foods),   
• Jim Bergin - Glanbia
• John Horgan - Kepak
• John Counsel - Diageo
• Jim Hanley - Rosderra
• Dan McSweeney - Carbery
• Eamonn Lennon - Abbott
• Donal Byrne - Cadbury

Fisheries and Forestry

• Irish Fish Producers Organisation - CEO, Lorcain O'Cinneide
• Irish Timber Growers Association - Brendan Lacey 

Consumer and Retail

• Chris Martin, Musgrave Group, CEO
• Gary Browne, Group CEO, RMG Target

Economists, Accountants and Banks

• Michael Dowling, Head Agri-Strategy AIB
• Professor Alan Matthews, Prof of Economics, TCD
• Tom Considine, Former Sec. Gen. D/Finance,

Environment

• Mary Kelly - Director General EPA
• Alan Lauder - Birdwatch Ireland

Secretariat: 

• from DAFF (EPD), Bord Bia, Teagasc and Enterprise Ireland.

ICTU representative

• Gerry McCormack