Environmental Protection Agency Ireland
Eimear Cotter was appointed Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in March 2026 and previously served as a Director in the EPA since 2017. As Director General, she is Chair of the Executive Board and operational chief executive of the EPA and is responsible for leading and strategically managing the EPA.
Eimear is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University, where she completed her Ph.D, and holds an MBA from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.