Interim Board Member, Interim Chair of Audit and Risk Committee at the Ulster-Scots Agency
Tony Crooks holds Masters degrees from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Toronto and a PhD from Trinity College.
He 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. 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.
