Linda Stuart-Trainor Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

• This role included:
• Lead on policy development and lobbying on behalf of the 8,500 members of the SFA. Co-ordination of member input, developing policy positions, drafting submissions, member of a number of Government working groups..
• Advisor to small business owner-managers on a range of issues including access to government supports, access to finance, public procurement, commercial rates.
• Project lead for the SFA Better Business magazine: concept development, project planning and negotiation with service providers in advance of launch; idea generation, content co-ordination and managing distribution of.
• Membership development and revenue generation.
• Responsibility for surveys, research and analysis.

In July-August 2016 and May-September 2017 I was Acting Director of the Small Firms Association. In this senior management role, I took over the strategic direction, finances and overall management of the SFA, including managing three staff and the Association's budget. In addition to my continuing responsibilities as Assistant Director, I was chief media.

Dublin, Ireland

My role included a number of different elements, primarily research, project management and event management.- Research and analysis of European affairs and their impact on Ireland, particularly in the fields of the Future of Europe (EU institutional developments, attitudes towards integration etc.), Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, and Values.

Brussels, Belgium

At Publicis Consultants I worked with corporate clients in a wide range of sectors, including financial services, retail, healthcare and digital/telecoms, monitoring and analysing EU policy developments with potential impact on their activities. Based on analysis of ongoing and upcoming processes, my role involved designing and implementing advocacy.

Europe for Ireland was a group of Irish people in Brussels and elsewhere around Europe working for a Yes vote in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The aim of Europe for Ireland was to energise Irish people and others around Europe with family and friends in Ireland to make personal contact with those in Ireland to encourage them to vote Yes.The.

The Ideas Campaign was an independent citizens’ initiative which ran from March to May 2009 collecting citizens’ ideas for Irish economic renewal and recovery.I coordinated the research and analysis of the 5,300 ides received and produced the Ideas Campaign Action Plan, the final report of the campaign. My role also involved coordinating a team of.

Five month ‘stage’ at the European Commission, giving an insight into the working of the EU institutions and the current state of play regarding European public policy.My principle task was to prepare briefing notes for the Commissioner and his cabinet on legislative proposals from all Commissioners’ portfolios. Other tasks included attending meetings of.

Research assistant to Frank Barry, Professor of International Business and Development at TCD. I was the sole researcher developing a previous paper of Prof. Barry’s examining the degree of foreign ownership of Irish manufacturing firms in the late 1950s. This consisted of archive and internet-based research. The results of this research are due to be.

Ba, History And Political Science, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, journalism (Trinity News), Suas Educational Development, manager of camapign for.

Erasmus, History And Sociology

Erasmus year at the Sorbonne. All classes, assignments and examinations through French