Royal Irish Academy Represented on the ALLEA Board

The ALLEA Board consists of eleven members, elected by the General Assembly, including Vice-Presidents and the ALLEA President who chairs the Board.

Professor Drury has been and continues to be an excellent ambassador and representative for the Royal Irish Academy, and we greatly appreciate the time and effort he consistently devotes to the Academy, and both our national international activities. His commitment to advancing science and his level of expertise means he is thoroughly deserving of this election.

Professor Drury’s first Board Meeting will be in Berlin in September 2018.

ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, was founded in 1994 and currently brings together 59 Academies in more than 40 countries from the Council of Europe region. Member Academies operate as learned societies, think tanks and research performing organisations. They are self- governing communities of leaders of scholarly enquiry across all fields of the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. ALLEA therefore provides access to an unparalleled human resource of intellectual excellence, experience and expertise.