We heard an excellent talk at our meeting today from Professor Patricia Barker. You can listen to it on our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@amachledia?si=eFQ-Qp6HuCYnalCn
Patricia is an Irish academic, accountant and public body leader. One of the earliest staff at NIHE Dublin, she was later Professor of Accounting there, and then Registrar and Vice-President for Teaching and Learning, after it had become Dublin City University. She served nine years as a delegate to the International Accounting Standards Board. She has also worked as an international election monitor for the OSCE, a human rights observer in Israel and Palestine, and as chairperson of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service and a director of other public bodies. A holder of an MPhil in gender studies and a PhD on financial disclosure, she has written and co-written books and articles on accounting, ethics and gender equality.
She is active in the Malahide Church of Ireland community, where she served many years as a parochial Mothers’ Union committee member. She has served multiple terms as a member of the governing assembly of the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, the Diocesan Synod, delegated by her parish, and has been a supplementalist for the Diocesan Council.
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