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Chair of Renewable Energy Ireland
Policy Leaders Fellowship Alumnus, Centre for Science and Policy
Jim Breslin is Chair of Renewable Energy Ireland, a partnership between Ireland’s leading sustainable energy associations. He enjoyed a 30 year career in the Irish senior public service. He was Secretary General of three different Government Departments. He was first appointed Secretary General in 2011 to lead the establishment of the new Department of Children and Youth Affairs. From 2014 to 2020 he was Secretary General of the Department of Health. From 2020 to 2023 he led the newly established Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. He has a Masters in Public Administration (Mid-Career) from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, MSc (Econ) from Trinity College Dublin and BA in Economics and Politics from University College Dublin.