Oxfam Ireland is a registered charity in Ireland (ROI company number 284292, Charity number CHY 5988) and Northern Ireland (NI company number 33800, Charity number CHY XN89651) with headquarters in Dublin and Belfast. We are registered with the Charities Regulatory Authority in Ireland (Registered Charity Number 20009946) and with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (Registered Charity Number NIC100848). Here are our articles of association for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
As a not-for-profit, charitable status company, Oxfam Ireland is governed by a maximum of 9 unpaid trustees, known as Council or Board members. Since 2012, members are appointed for a maximum of two three-year terms through open competition. Board members appointed as Chair can serve for a maximum of two three-year terms in that role. These trustees participate in special committees set up by management to guide decisions on programme quality, finance and risk.
A Board committee on remuneration and performance appoints the Chief Executive and sets pay rates for the Chief Executive and senior staff. For every paid staff member, we have the support of approximately ten volunteers. We could not carry out our work without this key support from people countrywide and we value it greatly.
Current board members are:
Alf is a chartered accountant by profession, having worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cork and Dublin, and also in the Irish and international hospitality and beverage sector for over 25 years. He is a director of the Dalata Hotel Group plc, the ESB and of Social Innovation Fund Ireland Ltd. He is also director of a number of businesses across a range of sectors including financial services, marketing and technology, tourism and hospitality, agriculture and food, health and safety, and retail. He also runs his own company and works with leadership teams and boards in the private and public sectors in Ireland on organisational strategy, marketing and business development, financial management and human resource leadership.
Dónal is a chartered accountant, accomplished business leader and experienced Group Chief Financial Officer with over 20-years’ experience, including significant board and sub-committee membership. He has operated successfully at senior executive level across a range of sectors and geographies in a number of complex roles with publicly listed, state-owned and private equity-owned firms: amongst others, National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) and Amaris Hospitality, a Lone Star portfolio company. Dónal also has over 12-years’ professional services experience working with KPMG and Arthur Andersen.
Joyce Bourne - Appointed 27/09/2021
Joyce Bourne has over 30 years working in the public service of Barbados, before relocating to Ireland with her family in 2020. She has spent her career developing her expertise as an advocate for development issues in the international arena, having served in senior diplomatic roles accredited to Venezuela; the United States of America; the Organisation of American States and the United Nations, New York.
She has extensive experience in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. She has represented Barbados at numerous bilateral, regional and international meetings, facilitated numerous regional and international negotiations and provided foreign policy advice on social, political, economic and environmental issues. In addition, she has a sound background in administration, management and building collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
She holds post-graduate qualifications in international relations as well as a master’s degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
Yvonne Byrne - Appointed 25/06/2021
Yvonne Byrne is a Partner in Deloitte Digital in Dublin, Ireland. Yvonne works with clients across industry on their customer and digital transformation agenda, specialising in Customer experience analysis and design, channel strategy and management, sales and service transformation and new proposition development. She has over 20 years within the UK Financial Services and consulting industry, having previously worked with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Tesco Bank and KPMG UK. Yvonne has extensive experience in all aspects of Customer Experience, growth strategy, product management, customer and channel strategy and new proposition development.