New FSAI Chairman

Professor Gibney, Professor of Food and Health at University College Dublin’s Institute of Food and Health, has a long and distinguished career as a world-leading expert in food science and nutrition.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has appointed Professor Michael Gibney as its new Chairman.

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Professor Gibney, Professor of Food and Health at University College Dublin’s Institute of Food and Health, has a long and distinguished career as a world-leading expert in food science and nutrition. Originally a UCD graduate with a Masters in Agricultural Chemistry, Prof Gibney completed a PhD in Sydney University. During his career he held the position of Professor of Nutrition and subsequently Dean of Research with TCD. 

After 23 years with TCD he took up the post of Director of the UCD Institute of Food and Health in 2006.  He previously served as a Board member of the FSAI from 1999 to 2009 and has served on several EU and UN committees on nutrition and health including the EU Scientific Committee for Food and the EU Scientific Steering Committee, where he chaired its BSE Working Group. In 2010, he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Joint Programme Initiative on Food and Health Research. He is former President of the Nutrition Society and has published over 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers in Public Health Nutrition and Molecular Nutrition. He is the principal investigator on several national and EU projects. 

According to FSAI Chief Executive Professor Alan Reilly, “Professor Gibney will be a tremendous asset to our Board’s cumulative deliberations. His appointment reaffirms our science-based ethos which underpins all the decisions, policies and actions of our organisation.  He has an impeccable global reputation for research on food and nutrition and has served on a number of high-level advisory committees in this area, both nationally and at EU level”.

The FSAI has also appointed Raymond O’Rourke, a qualified barrister and food regulatory and consumer affairs lawyer, to its Board while re-appointing Prof Charles Daly, Emeritus Professor of Food Science and Technology at University College, Cork, to its Board.

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