Tom Arnold (economist)

Tom Arnold is an Irish agricultural economist and public policy advisor who has worked in the Irish civil service and served on various non-governmental organisations and public forums, mainly in the area of food security.

Tom Arnold
Born
Ireland
OccupationDirector General of IIEA, former CEO of Concern Worldwide and special representative for hunger.

Education

Born in 1948,[1] Arnold has a degree in agricultural economics from University College Dublin, an MBA from the Université catholique de Louvain, and a master's in strategic management from Trinity College Dublin.[2]

Career

As a civil servant, he worked in the Department of Agriculture, latterly as chief economist (1988–1993) and assistant secretary general (1993–2001),[3] where he supervised Ireland's implementation of the EU's Single Payment Scheme.

He has been a director of The Irish Times Limited since July 2010.[4]

Arnold served as Chief Executive Officer of Concern Worldwide, Ireland's largest humanitarian aid agency, from October 2001 to February 2013.[2] Arnold holds the position of Concern's Special Representative for Hunger.[5]

In October 2012, Arnold was appointed chairman of the Constitutional Convention by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.[6] In that position, in 2013 he advocated for allowing Irish overseas to vote in elections.[7]

In November 2013, Arnold took up the appointment as Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs.[8]

In August 2014, Arnold accepted a request from the UN to coordinate the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement [9] (SUN Movement), which brings together governments, civil society and the private sector, to improve nutrition at national and international level. The request was made following the appointment by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of Dr David Nabarro, the current Coordinator of the SUN Movement, to be the UN System Senior Coordinator of the Response to the Ebola Virus Disease. In Dr Nabarro’s absence as SUN Coordinator, Arnold was to provide strategic leadership to the SUN Movement, working closely with the existing SUN Networks and the SUN Secretariat, based in Geneva. The appointment was for a six-month period, starting 1 September 2014.

In July 2015, he was named a panel member of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition.[10]

In May 2018 , Arnold was appointed Chair of Task Force Rural Africa, a joint effort of the EU and the African Union to improve Africa's food production. The body was tasked with producing recommendations by the end of the year.[11]

He is Chair of a Task Force on Rural Africa. He was previously Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA).[12]

Writing

He has published op-eds opposing aid cuts that would reduce the Irish Government's humanitarian response to world starvation.[13] He has also advocated making nutrition a central part of foreign policy.[14]

Boards and committees

Arnold has presided (as chair, coordinator, director general, etc.) over:-

He has been a member of:-

Awards

Arnold received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland in 2009[25] and University College Dublin in 2010,[26] and a People of the Year Award in 2013.[27] In May 2014, he was awarded the Helen Keller International Humanitarian Award.[28]

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References
  1. Slattery, Laura (12 June 2019). "Food for thought: Tom Arnold, Concern Worldwide". The Irish Times.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 March 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Tom Arnold". Bloomberg News. 2019.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. O'Sullivan, Niall (29 August 2013). "I've heard no good argument against voting from abroad". The Irish Post.
  9. "Secretary-General Appoints Tom Arnold of Ireland Coordinator A.I. of Movement on Scaling Up Nutrition – Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". Un.org. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  10. "Tom Arnold is appointed to the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition". Scaling Up Nutrition. 22 July 2015.
  11. Brussels, Patrick Smyth. "Africa can feed itself with a productive agricultural infrastructure". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  12. "Tom Arnold": Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutritio
  13. Arnold, Tom (28 October 2009). "We cannot allow any further aid cuts to undermine our battle against world hunger". The Independent.
  14. Arnold, Tom (10 January 2018). "How Ireland can influence the world". The Irish Times.
  15. "The Irish Times Trust – History & Values". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  16. "Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice – Tom Arnold". Mrfcj.org. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  17. "About IrishTimes.com". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  18. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. "2020 Africa Conference – Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020". Conferences.ifpri.org. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  21. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  22. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. "SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ADVISORY GROUP FOR CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND – Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". Un.org. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  24. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  25. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  26. "UCD President's Office: Tom Arnold". Ucd.ie. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  27. "The 2013 People of the Year Award Winners". Irish Independent. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  28. MacDonald, Sarah (25 May 2014). "International award for Concern's Tom Arnold". Catholic Ireland.
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