David Hegarty, Director of Legal and Policy, Corporate Enforcement Authority, Ireland

David Hegarty is Director of Legal & Policy. A barrister, he was formerly an Enforcement Portfolio Manager with the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE). He qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and transferred to the Bar in 2006, practising primarily in the area of criminal defence and advocacy. Prior to joining the ODCE, he was Advisory Counsel in the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser advising the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission and Service and Parliamentary Committees on constitutional, parliamentary and administrative law matters. He has also worked as a legal officer in the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague, working in Judges’ Chambers with international judges trying economic crime, corruption, abuse of public office, war crimes and conspiracy to commit terrorism cases.