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Tom Arnold was appointed Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation, in 2001. He was previously Assistant Secretary General with the Irish Department of Agriculture and Food, and was Senior Economist with ACOT, the Farm Advisory Service. At an earlier stage of his career, he worked for the European Commission on Development and Agriculture Policy issues, including three years in Africa. He was Chairman of the OECD’s Committee of Agriculture (1993 – 1998) and a member of the UN Millennium Project’s Hunger Task Force (2003 – 2005). He is currently a member of Irish Aid’s Hunger Task Force, the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) 2020 Advisory Council, and the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) Advisory Group. He is also Chairman of the European Food Security Group (EFSG) and Vice-Chair of the Trans Atlantic NGO Food Aid Policy Dialogue (TAFAD) – a unique alliance of American, European and Canadian NGOs working together on the reform of international food aid. He is a member of the boards of both Transparency International Ireland and the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin, and was recently appointed to both the Irish Times Trust and the Irish Government’s Commission on Taxation. He is a graduate in Agricultural Economics from University College Dublin and has Masters Degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain and Trinity College Dublin.
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