Staff listing

QQI employs more than 80 staff 

  • Awards directorate
  • Corporate services directorate
  • Development directorate
  • Integration directorate
  • Partnerships division

Chief Executive Officer - Padraig Walsh

  • Anna Murphy, Senior Adviser, Strategy and Risk
  • Therese Masterson 
  • Janet Cawley

Director - Barbara Kelly 

Quality assurance division

  • Walter Balfe, Head
  • Alex Keys, Senior Manager
  • Laura McNamee, Manager
  • Marie Mattimoe, Manager
  • Michelle Gallagher, Manager
  • Yvonne Agnew
  • Dimitrios Parskevas
  • Angela McDonnell
  • Janet Cawley
  • Marie Cotter
  • Tracey Murphy
  • Katherine Walsh

Qualifications standards and certification division

  • John O'Connor, Head
  • Sabine Epitalon, Manager
  • Beata Sokolowska, Manager
  • Gediminas Buika 
  • Paula Doyle
  • Alga Mulhall  
  • Keith Tomney
  • Andrea Sadlier

Director: Cliona Curley

Caitríona Lawless

Provider governance and risk​ division

  • Mary Sheridan, Head
  • Gráinne Power
  • Martina Fleming 
  • Kathy Lantry 

Human and physical resources

  • Eamonn Collins, Senior Manager 
  • Celine Kelly, Manager
  • Ian Larkin 
  • Mary Dowling 
  • Liam Plunkett

Finance and procurement

  • Liam Butler, Senior Manager
  • Yvonne Toner 
  • Aoife Marley 
  • Christine Shannon 
  • Cian Bradley
  • Neha Gupta 

ICT 

  • Louise Kelly , Senior Manager
  • Luke Johnson   

​Internal audit

  • Andrew Bridgett, Senior Manager
  • Mary McEvoy 

Programme Management

  • Ann Murphy, Senior Manager

Director: Jim Murray

Research and innovation division

  • Peter Cullen, Head
  • Roisín Morris-Drennan, Senior Manager
  • Arancha Oviedo

International education division

  • Mary Grennan, Head
  • Lisa Kehoe, Manager
  • Rebecca Doyle
  • Deborah O'Brien

International mobility and prior learning division

  • Andrina Wafer, Head
  • Jennifer Osborne, Manager
  • Mark Coney
  • Yvonne Cullen
  • Anne Maher

Director: Bryan Maguire 

Qualifications information and learning opportunities division

  • Angela Lambkin, Head
  • Órla Barry, Senior Manager
  • Siobhán Brennan
  • Karla Keogan
  • Alice Long
  • Patricia Reddy
  • Breda Cahill
  • Brendan Slattery
  • Anne Walsh

Tertiary education monitoring and review division

  • Marie Gould, Head
  • Andrea Durnin, Senior Manager
  • Orlaith O'Loughlin, Manager
  • Stephen Kelly 
  • Kevin Henry

Partnerships division

  • Laura Flynn, Head 
  • Mairéad Boland, Senior Manager
  • Gráinne Mooney, Senior Manager
  • Sue Hackett, Manager
  • Duncan Keegan
  • Caoimhe Marshall
  • Edel Sheerin
  • Alison Quinn