July 2021
President in Profile This is an exciting time for higher education in the region, the establishment of a new Technological University comprising LYIT, GMIT and IT Sligo will open up new opportunities for the founding institutes and for the people of the wider West and North-West Region.
Mr Paul Hannigan, President of Letterkenny Institute of Technology Paul Hannigan has been President of Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) since January 1998. He graduated from UCD with a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Studies and began work in Dundalk IT in 1987. In 1992, Paul became Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk, until his appointment to Letterkenny. He subsequently completed an MSc in Management Practice at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). In January 2008, he was appointed as President of LYIT for a further ten years. Paul commenced a new five-year contract as LYIT President in January 2018. Paul is a former member of the Higher Education
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Authority (HEA) and a former Director of Central Applications Office (CAO). He currently serves on the Donegal Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) and the North West Regional Executive of IBEC. He is a board member of Eurashe, the European Association for Technological Higher Education Institutions. He has also served as one of two first time independent Directors of Swim Ireland from 2016- 2020.
Paul has been involved with the TU application submission process since the publication of the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 in 2011. He has contributed strategically to the development of the CUA submission through his leadership at an institutional level in LYIT but also at a collaborative level with IT Sligo and GMIT.
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