Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson joined the Board in January 2019. She most recently served as the Ambassador of Ireland to the United States from 2013 to 2017. She joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972 and was appointed Assistant Secretary General in 1991, serving in this post until 1995. She was appointed Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, after which she became Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union in 2001. Following this, Ms Anderson was appointed Ambassador of Ireland to France in 2005, where she served until 2009. In 2009, she became Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations in New York prior to her appointment as the Ambassador of Ireland to the United States in 2013. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Peacebuilding Fund at the United Nations. She is also a Board member of the Druid Theatre Galway.