The Pan European Pensions and Asset Pooling Summit 2007

Dermot McCarthy

Following service in the Department of Industry and Commerce, joined the Department of Health in 1977.

Appointed Director of the National Economic and Social Council in 1990.

Appointed Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Taoiseach in 1993, with responsibility for Economic and Social Policy Division.

Appointed Secretary General to the Government in January 2000, with additional responsibility for Economic and Social Policy and the Strategic Management Initiative.

He is the Chairperson of the National Economic and Social Council.