Gavin O'Reilly

Gavin O'Reilly is president of the World Association of Newspapers and "was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer of Independent News & Media PLC [‘INM’] in December 2001.

"He joined the international media group back in 1993 and has held various roles including Managing Director of its yellow page directory division (1993-5), Director of Production Operations (1995-7), Deputy-Managing Director (1997) and Managing Director (1998-2000) of its main publishing division in Ireland.

"In 1999, he also assumed the role as Chief Executive of its entire Irish division. A graduate of Georgetown University School of Business in Washington DC, he formerly worked in London for Advertising group DDB Needham.

"In the late ‘80’s, he also worked in Stockbroking in London and Asia. He currently resides in Dublin where he is also Chairman of Dromoland Castle Hotel and serves on the board of Independent News & Media PLC, Ashford Castle Hotel, Norkom Technologies, and numerous charitable foundations including the Ireland Funds.

"He is Chairman of N.N.I. (National Newspapers of Ireland), which hosted the 56th World Association of Newspapers Congress in Dublin in 2003."