Pat Barker (academic)

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  • Barker, Patricia; Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, 2009: The Minority Interest: Women Who Succeed in the Accountancy Profession, ISBN   9780903854108 [11] [12]
  • Barker, Patricia and Lucey, Cormac; Chartered Accountants Ireland, 2012: The Business Compass: Perspectives on Business Ethics, ISBN   9781912350735 [13]

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    Public body roles

    She was appointed a member of the Higher Education Authority, which oversees and partly funds universities and other third-level institutions in Ireland, in 1997; she also chaired its Audit Committee. [16] [17]

    Barker accepted an appointment as chairperson of the Blood Transfusion Service Board with effect from April 1999, [18] during a period when the organisation was going through many changes; [4] it was renamed as the Irish Blood Transfusion Service during her time in office. [19] She made proposals to the Minister of Health at the time, Micheál Martin, regarding improvement of corporate governance, highlighting that the board lacked certain competences, including transfusion medicine and medical production, blood end users, HR, the law, and strategy, while instead including such profiles as a hotelier and a marketing executive. She also expressed concern at the treatment of her inputs and role by the Minister and others. [20] She resigned in August 2001 over the fallout from the ways the centralisation of testing, the future of the Cork branch of the service, and governance were being discussed. [21]

    In 2014 she was appointed to the Board of Tallaght University Hospital, [22] reappointed in 2016 for 2017–2020, [9] and again appointed, on the nomination of the president of the hospital, for a 2020–2023 term. [5] [23] She has also been a member of the Audit Committee of Ireland's national health authority, the Health Service Executive, and the Irish Courts Service. [9] She served as a director of Dublin Bus [5] for two terms, from 2013–2019, [24] including chairing the Audit Committee. She was also appointed a director of the Marine Institute from 2013–2018, chairing the Audit and Risk Committee, [5] and was reappointed for the 2018–2023 term. [7]

    International body and NGO roles

    Barker volunteered with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in oversight of elections, including in South Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Malawi and Belarus. [5] She also performed human rights monitoring in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. [5]

    Barker has worked with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre since its foundation in 1979, [25] including as a volunteer counsellor, and served on the board of Women's Aid. She has also been a director of a housing association and Ireland's National Chamber Choir, [5] and a trustee of the Malawi Girls Education Fund. [9]

    Personal life

    Barker is married to Robert Barker, a tax accountant, [26] and they have two children and two grandchildren. [9] She has been a long-term resident of the Malahide area of northern Dublin [27] and she and her husband are active in the Malahide Church of Ireland community, where she served many years as a parochial Mothers' Union committee member. [28] [29] She has served multiple terms as a member of the governing assembly of the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, the Diocesan Synod, delegated by her parish, [30] [31] and has been a supplementalist for the Diocesan Council. [32] She was one of two keynote speakers at a special Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Forum hosted by the Archbishop at All Hallows College in 2001, [33] and was elected a delegate member of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland for 2020 to 2023. [32]

    Barker is a keen yachtswoman, having crewed and captained as far as Antarctica, and has spoken and written on this pastime. [34] [2]

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    2. 1 2 "Three women on a wave: Pat Barker, Antarctic Explorer". Irish Times. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2020. When I was five, I started learning to sail out of Clontarf. ... An experienced sailor she has also sailed around the Antarctic ...
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    34. ↑ "November Monthly Membership Meeting: Don't Tell Me I Can't". Association of International Women in Malta. Retrieved 17 August 2020. Looking back on her 70 years, Professor Barker considers the times in her life when she was told that, as a woman, she couldn't do things. ... has skippered boats in waters as disparate as the Indian Ocean and the Antarctic.
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    Pat Barker
    BornJune 1949 (age 75) [1]
    Dublin, Ireland
    NationalityIrish
    SpouseRobert Barker
    Children2
    Academic background
    EducationBelgrove NS and Holy Faith School, Clontarf
    Alma mater Trinity College Dublin