Dara Lynott is the Chief Executive Officer of the Electricity Association of Ireland), the representative body for the all-island electricity sector, since 2018.  Our Vision is to build a sustainable future powered by electricity. 
 
Prior to that he was the Deputy Director General and Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2004 to 2017 and in that period he had responsibility for licensing and Enforcement of large industrial and energy activities under multiple European environmental directives including the Industrial Emission Directive (IED), Greenhouse Gas Inventories and projections, Ireland's carbon emission trading scheme under the Kyoto Protocol, Ireland's environmental research and Circular Economy programmes. 
 
Prior to returning to Ireland in 1995 to join the EPA, he worked in the private sector for eight years as an environmental engineering consultant in Boston, USA. He holds a BE from NUIG, a MSc from Northeastern University, Boston and P Grad Dip. from the UCD Smurfit Business School. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of Engineers Ireland and a Professional Engineer (VT, USA).