printHon. David Byrne SC, The Chair of the board, Former Commissioner of the EU Health
Hon. David Byrne SC, The Chair of the board, Former Commissioner of the EU Health
David Byrne served as the first EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection from 1999 to 2004. He became a Senior Counsel in 1985 and was appointed Attorney General of Ireland in 1997. In 1998 he was one of the negotiators of the Good Friday Agreement. During his period in office as commissioner he sponsored the first EU laws on tobacco control and signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on behalf of the European Union in May 2003. Currently, he is co-chair of the Brussels based European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) and is a member of the Scientific and Ethics board of BBMRI-ERIC, the pan-European research infrastructure of biobanks and biomolecular resources. He also serves as a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland where he was conferred with an honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health.
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