Micheál Martin is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician serving as Taoiseach since January 2025, a role he previously held from 2020 to 2022. He has been the leader of Fianna Fáil since January 2011 and has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-Central since 1989. Known for his extensive cabinet experience, he has held numerous ministerial portfolios.
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Sarah Carey is a popular columnist for The Irish Independent and frequent contributor to Irish and International broadcast media. She has previously written for The Irish Times and The Sunday Times on everything from economics to politics, technology and media.
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Allison Melia is Vice President of Global Enterprise Sustainability for The Boeing Company.
She leads a global team responsible for advancing the company’s sustainability priorities, including through stakeholder engagement, global partnerships, policy advocacy, reporting, remediation, and risk management.
Since joining Boeing in 2017, Ms. Melia has held roles in Government Operations, Business Development, and Strategy spanning the company’s defense, commercial, and services
businesses in the United States and around the world.
Prior to Boeing, Ms. Melia spent 10 years as an intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, receiving numerous citations for her contributions to U.S. national security.
She served on the White House National Security Council and began her career at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
After leaving Government service, Ms. Melia was Director of Analysis at Crumpton Group, a strategic advisory firm in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Melia holds a bachelor’s degree in economics cum laude from Harvard University, a master’s degree in economics from George Mason University and an executive leadership
certificate from the London School of Economics.
She has lectured on national security at Georgetown University and the University of Pittsburgh. Passionate about the arts, Ms. Melia serves on the Board of Directors of The Washington Ballet.
Ms. Denise Mangan-Fahy was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Shannon Engine Support (SES) in September 2025. SES is a 50/50 joint-venture company between Safran Aircraft Engines (”Safran”) and AerCap. SES is the world’s largest CFM engine lessor. Prior to joining SES, Ms. Mangan-Fahy was Head of Engine Portfolio & Rental Operations at AerCap Engines – a role she assumed following the acquisition of GECAS by AerCap in 2021. She has more than 38 years’ experience in the aviation industry having worked in a variety of roles across the airline, maintenance and leasing industries at Aer Lingus and Shannon Aerospace. Ms. Mangan-Fahy holds a First-Class Honours MBA from the University of Limerick.
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Danny McCoy is Chief Executive Officer of Ibec since 2009. Ibec is Ireland’s largest business representative organisation and the country’s largest lobbying group. It has over 330 staff in nine locations and has 39 sectoral brands with substantial presence within the European Union through Ibec’s Brussels office. He is a member of the Irish Tripartite Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF).
He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, Honorary Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineers, Adjunct Professor Trinity College Dublin Business School and Vice President of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland and Independent Non Executive Director of Iput Real Estate. He is also the recipient of the Trinity European Laureate Award in recognition of his contribution to business in Europe, to economic thought and to public life.
He has held lecturing posts at University College London, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University. He has been senior economist at the Central Bank of Ireland and the Economic & Social Research Institute as well as being a consultant to the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Prof. Marina Efthymiou is Professor of Aviation Management at Dublin City University Business School, where she leads the Sustainable Aviation Hub of the Institute of Business and Society. She has published over 60 academic papers and advised bodies including the Department of Transport (Ireland), OECD ITF, European Commission, and European Parliament, and she comments regularly for Bloomberg, BBC, CNN, RTE and Politico. An IATA instructor and Principal Investigator on the EC-funded MSCA project AZER02050, she has held visiting professorships in Beijing, Singapore, and Riyadh. Her accolades include the aviation industry's "Women in Aviation" award (2025), the DCU Business School Young Research Award (2023), and the DCU President's Award for Distinctive Approach to Innovation in Teaching (2022).
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Nathalie Stubler is Chief Sustainability Officer at Safran and a member of the Group Executive Committee. Before joining Safran in September 2023, she has been working for 30 years in the airline industry. She began her career at Air Inter in 1992 as an engineer in the Network and Strategy Department. From 1997, she held several positions within Air France, first in Network, then in the Sales Department. In 2007, she was appointed as Air France's Delegate for Sustainable Development, and in 2010 became VP of Revenue Management and Pricing. She joined the Air France Executive Committee in 2013 and became Director of Strategy and Network for the Air France KLM Group. From 2014 to 2015, she served as Chief of Staff to the CEO of the Group. In 2016, she was appointed CEO of Transavia France, and in 2023, carried out a mission for the Group CEO on Air France KLM’s decarbonization strategy
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Tim O'Connell is a Partner and Head of Aviation at Grant Thornton Ireland, where he leads the firm's aviation advisory practice. Based in Dublin, he advises aircraft lessors, airlines, investors, asset managers and aviation service providers on a broad range of strategic, financial and operational matters.
With extensive experience across the global aviation sector, Tim works closely with many of the world's leading aircraft leasing platforms, supporting portfolio transactions, asset management initiatives, capital raising activities and corporate growth strategies. He has advised clients throughout Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, helping organisations navigate an increasingly dynamic aviation market.
Yvonne Devereux is a senior tax executive with over 25 years of experience specialising in international taxation, tax policy, and the aviation leasing sector. As head of AerCap's tax policy strategy, she advises on global and domestic tax developments and their impact on the leasing industry. Prior to joining AerCap, Yvonne served as Senior Vice President, International Tax at GECAS, following 17 years with KPMG where she advised multinational businesses on tax matters and cross-border transactions.
Yvonne has been actively involved with the Aviation Leasing Ireland (ALI) Tax Committee since 2019 and was appointed Chair in 2024. In this role, she works closely with industry stakeholders, Government departments, and policymakers on legislative and regulatory developments affecting Ireland's aviation leasing industry. She also represents Ibec on the Business Tax Stakeholder Forum with the Department of Finance.
In addition, Yvonne serves on Business Europe's Tax Policy Working Group and the OECD’s BIAC Tax Committee, contributing to business engagement with European Union institutions and the OECD on international tax policy matters.