Professor Patricia Barker

Pat is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Finance, DCU. She served as Associate Dean in the Business School and as Vice-President for Academic Affairs. She has held several non-executive directorships, chairing the Audit and Risk Committees in companies, including Dublin Bus, Tallaght Hospital, The Marine Institute, ETBI, and Veritas Publications. She is currently on the Board of and chairs the ARC of the Central Remedial Clinic and The Pensions Authority. Pat has chaired Chartered Accountants Ireland’s Technical Accounting Committee, Education Board and Ethics and Governance Committee. She is a member of the CCAB Ethics Committee. She represented Ireland on the ASB and the UITF. She served two periods as a member of the Council of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and was a judge on the panel for the Published Accounts Award for some years. With a research interest in EDI, she has published books in the inclusion of women in the accountancy profession, technical accounting and accounting ethics. Always interested in international democracy, Pat has represented Ireland on the OSCE and EU panels of election monitors and observers, working in post conflict theatres such as Bosnia, Chad, South Africa, Uzbekistan and Montenegro. She worked for six months in human rights in the West Bank of Palestine. Pat was one of the founder directors of Women’s Aid and worked for many years as a voluntary counsellor with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. She is married, with two children and two grandchildren and sails in waters as diverse as the Mediterranean and the Southern Ocean.