Former General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions David Begg has been appointed Chairperson of the Workplace Relations Commission.
The appointment for a five-year term was announced by Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment Damien English.
Mr Begg replaces Paul Duffy, who chaired the WRC from 2015.
The appointment was made following an open recruitment campaign carried out by the Public Appointments Service.
Alongside this latest appointment, Mr Begg chairs the Pensions Authority, the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and the Fire Service National Oversight Implementation Group of the Department of the Environment.
He is also an Adjunct Professor at Maynooth University Institute of Social Sciences.
Mr Begg's extensive history in the trade union movement included heading up the ESB Officers Association, the Communications Workers' Union and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, holding the latter role from 2001-2015 when he retired.
Between 1997 and 2001, he stepped away from trade union activities to chair international aid agency Concern.
Mr Begg was previously a director of the Central Bank of Ireland between 1995 and 2010 and of The Irish Times Trust from 2001-2011.
