Niamh Randall

Niamh Randall is Head of Advocacy and Communications in Respond and joined Respond in 2019. An experienced policy, advocacy and strategic communications professional she has over 20 years’ experience working in the areas of housing, homelessness and inclusion. Niamh is a member of the Board and Council of the Irish Council for Social Housing and the Housing Agency’s Research and Insights Panel. She was a member of the Government’s National Homeless Consultative Committee (NHCC) and the NHCC Data Subgroup from 2008 to 2018. In the European sphere, Niamh was the Irish representative on the Administrative Council of FEANTSA (European umbrella group of organisations working on homelessness) from 2011-2013 and was nominated onto to the Expert Health Working Group, the Homeless and Health Expert Cluster and the Women and Homelessness Expert Cluster. Niamh also represented the Drug Policy Action Group on the EU Civil Society Forum on Drug Issues from 2006 to 2008. She is a former board member of Women on Air. Niamh holds an MSc from Trinity College Dublin with qualifications in housing; sociology and social policy; human rights and equality; drug policy; community studies; and finance and is a Chartered Institute of Housing certified practitioner.