Professor Sir Desmond Rea
Desmond Rea lives in Belfast and is a Member and former Chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, November 2001 – 31 May 2009.
He is Editor of First Trust Bank’s quarterly Economic Outlook and Business Review.
He is a Non- Executive Director and Chairman of the Ulster Orchestra Society.
He was educated at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB).
He is an Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Ulster (UU) and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Business Studies and Assistant Dean, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences QUB.
He is a former Chairman of the NI Labour Relations Agency, NI Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment and NI Local Government Staff Commission. On 31 July 2004 he completed his term as a Non-Executive Director of AIB(UK) plc.
