Diarmuid Hegarty (Griffith College)

Diarmuid Hegarty BComm LLB is the President of Griffith College Ireland. He is also Chairman of the Friends of the Vocal Arts.

Not to be confused with Diarmuid O'Hegarty.

Diarmuid Hegarty
Hegarty in 2007
Born
Dublin
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin (BComm)
Honourable Society of King's Inns (Barrister at Law)
Scientific career
FieldsHigher Education, Commerce and Law
InstitutionsGriffith College
Business and Accounting Training

Biography

Diarmuid Hegarty was born in Dublin. He studied Commerce (BComm) at University College Dublin and obtained a Barrister at Law (BL) degree from the Honorable Society of King's Inns. He speaks conversational Italian and Chinese and fluent French.

Career

From 1969 to 1973, Hegarty trained to be an accountant with Coopers and Lybrand.[1][2]
In 1974, he became a Taxation Consultant with constituent firm of Deloitte and Touche.[1] That same year, Hegarty founded Business and Accounting Training, which grew into Griffith College Ireland.[1] In 1978, BAT college was incorporated.

In 1992, he became President of Griffith College Ireland. From 1999 to 2006, he served as a board member of Griffith College Karachi. In 2018 he was elected to the Council of Dublin Chamber of Commerce.

Professional qualifications & memberships

Barrister-at-Law
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
Previously a member of the Irish Tax Institute

Establishing Griffith College

Diarmuid Hegarty founded Griffith College as the Business and Accounting Training College in 1974 and the college operated from Milltown, St. Stephen's Green and Morehampton Road, Dublin,[3]
The name was changed to Griffith College when the college moved to the former Griffith Barracks in 1991.[4]

As President of Griffith College Diarmuid Hegarty is actively involved in promoting the Bologna Process for a Europe-wide Higher Education Network.[5]Griffith College is now established as Ireland's largest private third-level institution with over 7,500 students.

Various offices held

1981 – 1988: Member of Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
1981 – 1984: Chairman of the Accounting Review Committee of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
1982 – 1984: Chairman of the Inflationary Accounting Committee of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
1982: Represented Ireland on the Accounting Standards Steering Committee (the body then charged with the promulgation of statements of standard accounting practice for application throughout the English speaking accounting world)
1985 – 1987: Chairman of the Parliamentary and Law Committee of the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies in Ireland
1987: Member of the Financial Services working group Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
1996 – 1998: Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Government of Vietnam, in relation to the establishment of a proposed Vietnamese Association of Accountants
1998 and 1999: Advisor to the Irish Government under the Strategic Management Initiative Financial Management Working Group
1999 – present day: Member of Baggot Street Community Hospital (Royal City of Dublin Hospital) Board
1999 – 2000: Keynote speaker at various international seminars on Information Technology
2000 – 2008: Member of the Blackrock College Financial Advisory Group
2000 – present day: Rotating Chair of Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA). As Chairman of HECA he spearheaded the quest for Quality Assurance in tertiary private education
2001 – present day: Appointed by Minister for Education and Science, Dr Michael Woods, to the Higher Education and Training Awards Council
2001: Advisor to the Pakistani government in the area of education and investment in the IT Sector
2001: Appointed by the Government of Pakistan as Honorary Consul for Pakistan at Cork, for Co. Cork, Ireland
2004: Nominated for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
2004: Chairman of Friends of the Vocal Arts in Ireland
2004 – 2009: chairman of the board of Marketing of Las Adelfas Hotels
2007 – 2011: Chairman of the Higher Education and Training Awards Council Audit Committee
2008: Chairman of the Irish Higher Education Qualifications Network Sub-Committee on Pastoral Care
2010: Member of the High Level Group on Irish Education
2011: Chairman of the Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA),[6]
2011 – 2012: Vice-Chair of the Irish Higher Education Quality Network
2011 – present day: Member of Baggot Street Community Hospital (Royal City of Dublin Hospital) Strategy Committee
2012: Received an Honorary Professorship from the Beijing Information Science & Technology University (BISTU) in China[7] and was made an Honorary Member of the University's academic board
2012 – 2013: Chairman of the Irish Higher Education Quality Network

2018 - Elected as a Council Member [8]to Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Other roles

Aside from academics and education Hegarty is Chairman of the Las Adelfas Hotel partnership, in which he has extensive business interests. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Ireland-Pakistan Business Council.[9]

References
  1. Paul, Mark. "The business interview". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. "How Diarmuid Hegarty built a €27m business out of education". independent. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  3. Dean of private education still on course – Diarmuid Hegarty has big plans for Griffith College – interview by Ciaran Hancock, The Sunday Times 3 September 2006
  4. An Educating Business by Kieron Wood – Sunday Business Post, 17 October 2004 Archived 2 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Bologna Process – Irish Bologna Promoters Archived 10 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Higher Education College Association Chairmans Message Archived 18 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Griffith College President Honoured Archived 24 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Council of Dublin Chamber of Commerce 201i8".
  9. Ireland Pakistan Business Council Members
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