As Senior Standards and Monitoring Officer with the National Disability Authority’s Centre for Excellence in Universal Design I head up the National Monitoring Body for the EU Web Accessibility Directive.   Previously I worked as a senior Universal Design advisor with the CEUD and as the first Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty Manager with the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission.

I have led the development of national and international guidelines, standards, policy, education and technical projects with the NDA, W3C, European Commission, and UN agencies such as UNESCO and the ITU.  I have been an evaluator of FP6, FP7 and more recently Horizon 2020 R&D projects for the European Commission.

I am an associate lecturer on human rights and equality with the Institute of Public Administration and am undertaking an LLM by research with NUI Galway.  In my spare time I coach hurling, run, play disc golf and develop and translate accessible elearning courses.