Professor J Owen Lewis

President, Royal Dublin Society

Professor J Owen Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Science, UCD Dublin, is President of the Royal Dublin Society, and a member of the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland. Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) 2009-’12. Qualified as architect, engineer, and energy technologist, has practised professionally in Ireland, England and Zambia. Part-time Executive Director for Innovation and R&D at Bord na Móna 2006-‘08. Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Architecture UCD Dublin and later Principal of the UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences 2001-’06. In 1976 co-founded the Solar Energy Society of Ireland. Director of the UCD Energy Research Group 1974-2008 and former chair of Energy Institute Ireland and the Irish Green Building Council, and non-executive director of Tipperary Energy Agency, the Marine Institute and the Grangegorman Development Agency.