Dr Catherine Farrell is our Business Programme Lead

Business For Biodiversity Ireland is delighted to announce that Dr Catherine Farrell is moving over from our Board of Directors to take on the role of Business Programme Lead.

A pioneer of ecological restoration and research in Ireland and internationally, having developed Ireland’s first Biodiversity Action Plan for a corporate body (Bord na Móna), Catherine is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences and Adjunct Teaching Fellow in Trinity Business School at Trinity College Dublin.

Catherine developed a new TCD module for 2024-2025, The Business of Nature Positive, which incorporates learnings about nature, society and economy, exploring ways for undergraduate students to work with businesses in Ireland to support the global Nature Positive Initiative, and report through the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

Catherine worked on the EPA-funded research project INCASE, applying the UN SEEA Ecosystem Accounting framework at catchment scale in Ireland up to 2022, and her current research as part of BiOrbic National Bioeconomy Research Centre focuses on developing mechanisms to structure, finance, monitor and communicate the direct impacts and broader societal benefits of nature restoration (Project ReFarm). She was lead organiser of the Peatlands Gathering 2021, and is also a member of the ongoing National Land Use Review process.