Professor Gary O'Brien
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Gary O’Brien is Vice-President of Governance & Strategy at Mary Immaculate College, where he leads the Office of the VPGS with responsibility for institutional governance, strategic and operational planning, policy development, compliance, ICT, communications and marketing, community engagement, and quality assurance.
Alongside his executive role, he remains active in research on American politics and foreign policy, with a particular focus on strategic nuclear policy and international relations from the beginning of the Cold War to the present, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis. He has also contributed extensively to local governance and community development in Limerick City, having served as Chairperson of PAUL Partnership and as current Chair of the Education and Learning Sub-Committee that oversees educational investment from the Economic and Social Intervention Fund (ESIF), which forms part of the Limerick Regeneration programme. In addition, he is a member of the Board of the Hunt Museum, where he chairs the Audit and Risk Committee.
The Office of the Vice-President of Governance & Strategy is organised around two main domains:
Strategic Development
- Director of External Relations - Enterprise & Community Engagement
- Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing
- Director of Sustainability
- Director of Strategic Performance & Institutional Analytics
Corporate Governance, Corporate Services & Committee System
- Director of Academic Information Systems
- Director of Quality Office
- Director of ICT Services
- Director of Information, Governance & Compliance Management
- Coordinator of Risk Management & Internal Audit
- Office of Child & Adult Safeguarding
