Denis Leamy

Denis Leamy is the Chief Executive of Cork Education and Training Board since April 2019. Cork ETB manages 30 schools, Cork College of Further Education and Training and 160 Community Education Centres providing education and training to over 38,000 learners with an annual State budget of €240 million. Previously, he was CEO of Pobal for eleven years, an Irish Government Interagency body for Social Inclusion and Local and Community Development. A graduate of Maynooth University and Institute of Public Administration, he has a wide range of experience of managing youth and family projects in Dublin and Kilkenny and across the EU. He was Chair of the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Directing Committee since 2018 to 2024 and a member of OECD LEED Forum Board since 2012.