Adjunct Professor

Alan Reilly has worked in the agri-food sector for over 45 years in the areas of food safety and food regulatory affairs. He worked at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) for sixteen years where he was responsible for setting up and managing this national food regulatory authority. Has was Chief Executive of the Authority from 2009 to 2015 with overall responsible for coordinating the enforcement of national food regulations and the provision of the scientific evidence-base for underpinning national food safety policy. Before joining the FSAI, he worked in the Food Safety Programme of the World Health Organization, Geneva. He has also worked at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK, and as a visiting associate professor at the College of Fisheries, University of the Philippines. From 2015 to 2018 he was a Senior Technical Advisor with the FAO Bangladesh Country Office assisting with the setting up and operationalisation of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority and setting up an undergraduate BSc course in Food Safety Management at the Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh. He is currently working as a food safety advisor with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority in the areas of food fraud and food defense. 

He acts as an adviser to the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the WHO/FAO International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN). He is chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Food Information Council (EUFIC). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, UK; a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology; and Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of Ireland