Eunan McKinney is a Senior Adviser specialising in Advocacy, Communications, and Public Affairs.
He previously held the role as Head of Communications & Advocacy at Alcohol Action Ireland (2017-2022), a non-governmental organisation where he directed the civil society response to secure the enactment of the Public Health Alcohol Act, 2018.
He served as Political Director to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (2014-2016), advancing public policy including national broadband delivery, an energy white-paper and eircode systems, and to the Minister for Primary Care at the Department of Health (2012-14), delivering strategic policy on universal primary healthcare (all children under six), and alcohol and drug policy.
Prior to a period in political management and government administration (2005-2016), he was Founder of Source, a creative communications agency (1990-2005). He is a history and politics graduate, with a Masters in Politics, from University College Dublin, and holds a Professional Diploma in Advertising studies from Technological University Dublin.
He currently serves voluntary as a full member of a WHO Europe Technical Advisory Group, is Chair of CareGivers Ireland clg, Project Director of the Yeats Sisters Commemoration Project, and is a non-executive Director of Integrated Risk Solutions Ltd and Sligo Jazz Project clg, and is a frequent contributor to international fora and academic centres on advocacy and communications leadership practice.