Dr Eimear Cotter, Director General, Environmental Protection Agency
Eimear Cotter is the Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), appointed in March 2026 and served as a Director in the EPA since 2017. As Director General, she is Chair of the Executive Board and operational chief executive of the EPA and is responsible for leading and strategically managing the EPA.
Eimear holds a BA (Mod) in chemistry from Trinity College Dublin, a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Oxford University and an MBA from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. She is a Board member on the Governing Board of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology and the Governance Committee for the MaREI Research Centre. Eimear is a 2019 Eisenhower Fellow. She was formally a Board member on the National Statistics Board (2017-2023).