Cornelius Patrick Power

Dr Cornelius (Con) Patrick Power, born 29 January 1939 Waterford; parents Henry Power, Accountant & Hide Merchant (1902-1947) & Catherine Madeline (neé O’Sullivan), National Teacher (1902-1976); home then: Gracedieu Lower, Waterford X91 P6D3. Post-graduate career: 1963-2005: Director, DCP Consultants Ltd (1993-2005); Director (Economic Affairs), Ibec (CII) (1979-1993), formally assigned by Ibec to Department of the Environment & Local Government (1988-1989; non-executive to 12-1993), and Department of the Taoiseach (1992-1993; projects to 01-1994); President, IT Sligo (ATU Sligo)(1972-1979; Research Officer (Unit Leader), An Foras Forbartha (Department of the Environment & Local Government)(1967-1972); Lecturer, DIT (TU Dublin)(1964-1967) ; Inspector of Taxes (1963-1964). Retired 31 March 2005; on “Register of Retired Members” of my 3 Professional Bodies. Part-time & occasional lecturer, and extern examiner to Universities, Institutes of Technology, public sector entities, learned societies, and to professional & trade bodies 1967–2009, and guest public lecturer 1965-2019.

Education & formation: BComm (Hons 2.1 1963 UCD), linked with training as Accountant and Chartered Governance Professional, including with Kennedy Crowley & Co (KPMG), and Gardner Donnelly & Co (Deloitte), with assignments in the public, professional practice, and private sectors Ireland & UK (1956-1963) (Career break 1957-59). Academic Post-graduate: MEconSc (Hons 2.1 1965 UCD), Political Economy & Management Accounting (Dissertation: Working Capital Control); PhD, Business Administration, (State of California institutional auhorisation, and degree programme approval, PWU 1988): qualifying dissertation, Ireland’s Strategic National Roads Network: A Key to Economic Development (published CII Newsletter, July 1988), and thesis, The Environment for Enterprise, revised, up-dated, and published Metamorphosis: Lessons from the formative years of the Celtic Tiger 1979-1993(Cork: Oak Tree Press, 2009; hardback, 340pp, €45); MA Religion & Culture (Hons 1.1 2010 DCU/MDI) (6 modular assignments – Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics; Thesis: Christian Morality: Key to Temporal Prosperity); and Certificate in Christian Theology and Practice, Church of Ireland Theological Institute/TCD (2022). Professional by examination & training: Chartered Governance Professional & Incorporated Commercial Accountant (ACIS & ASCA 1964; FSCA 1968-1980; FCIS 1975 – now FCG), Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA 1970 – FCMA/CGMA 1975), and Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA 1980). Peer awards, including Companion, Engineers Ireland, for services to the national roads network, and ‘Chartered Certified Accountant of Year’ 2002 (ACCA Ireland).
Non-executive: Chairman each of 20 organisations, including interim National Roads Authority, Department of the Environment & Local Government (NRA)(1988-1993), Independent Hospitals Association of Ireland (IHAI)(1999-2002), Anotherway ULC (subsidiary UTV Media plc) (2001-2008), Financial Services Ombudsman Council (Department of Finance)(2004-2008), and Disciplinary Committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, London (ACCA)(2012: Panel Member 1999-2012, sometime Deputy Chairman); periods as Executive Chairman each of interim NRA, and IHAI. Sometime non-executive on boards / committees of 51 other entities in the public, private, and professional & financial services sectors in Ireland, UK, EU, and OECD, including Committee of the European Social Fund (1980-1988), Business & Industry Advisory Committee to OECD (Education Committee 1985-1992), British-Irish ENCOUNTER (2004-2006), and Governing Board of the Mater Dei Institute of Education, a College of DCU (2010-2018).
Publications: Authored 1 book, 7 booklets (three jointly); 2 restricted circulation pamphlets for University of Reading UK, and 284 articles on economics, corporate governance, public affairs, and on my PhD research areas of the legislative, regulatory, fiscal, administrative, and natural & built environment parameters that impact on the conduct of enterprise, manufacturing & services, public & private, national, and global. Published works (294: 1968-2016), as at July 2016 (6 additions to April 2022), and 728 press-released public talks (1965-2016) (28 additions to 2022), with 1,911 related news media reports, to 2016 are indexed and are in the Yeats Library of Atlantic Technological University [ATU Sligo campus].
Personal: Member of 11 organisations in the community, educational, public & international affairs, public service, and social sectors, including, with year of joining, O’Connell School PPU (1956); UCD Alumni Association (1963 + UCD Business Alumni 1965); Institute of International & European Affairs (Founding Director & inaugural Vice-Chairperson 1991); Irish Association for Economic, Cultural, and Social Relations (North/South) (1991), Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem (1998 – invested at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin); Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland (2008); and Organisation for National Ex-Service Personnel (2012). Religious Affiliation: Church of Ireland (Anglican), Whitechurch Parish, Dublin (Licensed Parish Reader). Clubs: ROSL, London (1999), and UCD University Club (Foundation Member 2019). Widower: spouse, Maria Christina (neé Barrett) (1938-2017), with four adult children: Aideen (Lee) (1966), Ruth (Humphreys) (1968), Audrey (McGrath) (1972), and David Power (1979). End