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NCC Council Member

John Travers

Economic and Business Consultant

John Travers is an Economic and Business consultant. He is currently acting Director General of Science Foundation Ireland (2010 - 2011). Previously, he was the founding CEO of Forfás (1993-2002) and of Science Foundation Ireland (2000-2001) during its critical start-up phase. John was Chief Economic Advisor in the Department of Industry and Commerce from 1988 to 1993. Prior to that, he held senior management positions in the Department of the Taoiseach, Department of Finance, Department of Local Government and IDA Ireland.

Across all of these positions he has been closely involved in the process of national economic and industrial planning over a period of more than thirty years. He is currently a member of a number of Governance Boards in both the public and private sectors. He was appointed by the Government as Chairman of the National Tourism Development Authority (2002-2003), Chairman of the Expert Group established to plot a new ten-year national strategy for Irish tourism (2003) and Chairman of the follow on Strategy Implementation Groups 2003-2005 and 2005-2007.

John holds Postgraduate degrees in Town Planning, Economic Planning and in Business Administration from the Dublin Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and the National University of Ireland respectively.