Non-Executive Director
Aideen McGinley has over 35 years local and central government experience as CEO of Fermanagh District Council, Permanent Secretary in the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and subsequently Department of Employment and Learning. Seconded as CEO to ILEX, urban regeneration company for Derry-Londonderry, she was instrumental in building the Peace Bridge and securing the UK City of Culture 2013 title for the city.
She is a Trustee of the National Trust, Deputy Chair of Carnegie UK Trust, on the DCMS expert Panel for U.K. City of Culture and was Northern Ireland Trustee on the BBC Trust. She holds a number of voluntary positions including trustee and former Chair of Fermanagh Trust and a Director of mental health charity the Aisling Centre.
She was awarded OBE in the Queen’s Millennium honours, honorary doctorate University of Ulster, honorary membership the Royal Society of Ulster Architects and Heart for Habitat for Humanity Award (2018).
She is particularly interested in Collective wellbeing and inclusion and has expertise internationally in Whole Systems thinking, Community Planning, Coproduction and Stakeholder Engagement.