Dr Patrick Fottrell, a native of Youghal,  has a strong scientific background and is Chairman of Science Foundation Ireland and the Research Board of St. Vincent’s University Hospital. He was educated at North Monastery and UCC and is a former President of the National University of Ireland, (NUI) Galwa y and  a member and former Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy.

Dr Michael Hyland, a graduate of UCC is currently Chairman of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Cork Teaching Hospitals and a leading authority on geriatric medicine nationally and internationally. 

Niall Mellon is founder of “The Niall Mellon Township Challenge” which provides accommodation for the disadvantaged in South Africa.

Samantha Power is an internationally renowned academic who holds a Chair in Human Rights in Harvard. She moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine.

Pat Rice is a leading human rights activist based in Argentina and working with the families of the disappeared and in the area of adult literacy. A native of Fermoy, County Cork, he has worked in Latin America since the early 1970s where he is known as a leading worker in the area of human rights and a specialist observer annually at the UN in Geneva.

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