Tom Arnold (economist)

Tom Arnold (economist)

Infobox Person
name = Tom Arnold


caption = Tom Arnold
birth_place = Ireland
occupation = CEO of Concern Worldwide

Tom Arnold is an Irish economist and Chief Executive Officer of Concern Worldwide [ ] , an international humanitarian relief and development organization.

Born in Ireland, he attended University College Dublin where he graduated in Agricultural Economics and also has a Masters Degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain and Trinity College Dublin.

He was appointed Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide [ ] , Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation, in 2001. He was previously Assistant Secretary General with the Irish Department of Agriculture and Food, and was Senior Economist with ACOT, the Farm Advisory Service. At an earlier stage of his career, he worked for the European Commission on Agricultural Policy and on development programmes, representing the Commission for three years in the Ivory Coast and Malawi. He was Chairman of the OECD’s Committee of Agriculture (1993 – 1998). In 2003, he was appointed to the United Nations Millennium Projects Hunger Task Force, established by Kofi Annan to devise a strategy to halve world hunger by 2015.

Arnold is also a member of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [ ] and has served as an advisor to the United Nations and the European Union.

He is currently a member of the Irish Hunger Task Force, charged with proposing a strategy through which Ireland can make a distinctive contribution towards ending world hunger. He is a member of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) 2020 Advisory Council, and the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) Advisory Group. At European level, he is Chairman of the European Food Security Group (EFSG), a network of 40 European NGOs engaged in food security work, and is Vice-Chair of the Trans Atlantic Food Aid Dialogue (TAFAD) – an alliance of American, European and Canadian NGOs working on the reform of international food aid. He was recently appointed to the Trust governing the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading newspaper, and to the Irish Government’s Commission on Taxation.

He has authored numerous articles on poverty, hunger and aid delivery.

External links

* [http://www.concern.net/ Concern Worldwide]
* [http://www.concernusa.org/ Concern Worldwide US]

References

1. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/15/smn.20.html

2. http://www.foodaid2007.de/en/conference/participants/arnold


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