VSI - Key Persons
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- Investment Analyst for Cantor Fitzgerald
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- Member of the Contact Our Staff Team
- Programmes Officer
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- Senior Conflict and Security Adviser at Saferworld
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- Member of the Contact Our Staff Team
- Programmes Coordinator
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- CEO
- Member of the Contact Our Staff Team
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- Acting Chair
- Member of the Board
Robin Hanan has been a Board member of VSI since 2018 and acting Chairperson since January 2021. He studied history and politics and was the first full-time Education Officer of TCD Students Union, before joining the civil service where he worked in the areas of trade, transport and tourism. He volunteered in Nicaragua and on return was an active member and Chairperson of the Irish Nicaragua Support Group. He was Coordinator of Comhlámh, a volunteer-based organisation promoting sustainable development, human rights and solidarity through supporting returning volunteers, development education and campaigning. He was Director of EAPN (European Anti Poverty Network) Ireland, a network of hundreds of local and national anti-poverty groups linked to a Europe-wide network from 1999 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017. He was CEO of the Irish Refugee Council in the mid 2000s. He also chaired the Europe-wide policy groups of Concord (the umbrella body for development NGOs) in the 1990s and of the European Anti Poverty Network in the 2000s. Since retiring in January 2018, he has joined a number of voluntary boards: The Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, and its intercultural working group; PBI (Peace Brigades International) Ireland; Treoir (The national federation of services for unmarried parents and their children); and the Cork Street Fund. He is also active on a number of advisory committees, including Akidwa, the Africa Centre and the Bray Refugee Solidarity Group.
Robin Hanan (Acting Chair), retired, most recently as CEO at the European Anti-Poverty Network and also a volunteer activist