Tony Crooks is Vice Chairperson of the Ulster-Scots Agency Board.
Tony holds Masters Degree from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Toronto and a PhD from Trinity College.
Tony is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Social Studies at NUI Maynooth and Chair of the Institute for Managers of Community and Voluntary Organisations in Ireland (IMCV). Previously he has been a teacher, Research Senior Lecturer in TCD and Deputy Director of the City of Dublin VECs Curriculum Development Unit (1972-1991). In 1991 he was seconded to the Department of the Taoseach as a member of the Area based Response to Long Term Unemployment and was appointed as the founder CEO of Area Development Management Ltd (now POBAL) (1992-2008).
He has an ongoing interest in the welfare and education of children and young people and Chairs the Boards of Archways and of Start Strong and is a Board member of Barnardos and Headstrong.
