Mr. Tom Boland
Chief Executive Officer
Higher Education Authority
Mr. Tom Boland is Chief Executive Officer of the Higher Education Authority, a post he has held since January 2004. Mr. Boland has also had a distinguished career in the Department of Justice, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Education and Science. In the Department of Education and Science, he worked as legal adviser and as Director of Strategic Policy. He played a central role in putting in place a modern legislative basis for the education sector at all levels.
Currently a member of the Board of the Central Applications Office he is also Chairman of the Board of HEAnet. Mr. Boland is also a member of the Governing Board of the OECD’s Programme for Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE). Mr. Boland holds qualifications in civil engineering from NUIG and law (The King's Inns), and was called to the Irish Bar in 1989.
