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Secretary General, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Government of the Republic of Ireland
Policy Leaders Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy
Colm O’Reardon was appointed Secretary General of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in the Government of the Republic of Ireland in September 2023.
Before coming to the department, he was Head of the Strategic Economic Development Division in the Department of Finance.
In previous roles, he was Secretary to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, and Head of Strategy and Policy at the Department of Health.
He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Churchill College Cambridge and Wolfson College Oxford. He holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he was also a Rhodes scholar.