Michelle Carpenter, Rowing Ireland
Michelle Carpenter joined a small but growing group of Chief Executives in Irish Sport when she was appointed to head up Rowing Ireland in May 2018.
Originally from Limerick, Carpenter was one of the first registered female rowing members of Shannon Rowing Club, rowing in their first winning women’s championship crew of 1988.
On the administrative side, she has worked with the World Rowing development team on the Olympic Values Education programme. Closer to home she was the driving force behind the succesful Get Going Get Rowing initiative in schools around Ireland in the wake of the O’Donovan Brothers success at the Rio Olympics.
In 2017 she was selected by World Rowing to be a participant at the IOC Women in Leadership forum in Lausanne.
She also brings valuable experience from beyond the sport having spent eight years working in Europe, firstly at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, before moving to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt in 1999 to be part of the team that launched the Euro currency.
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Over the coming weeks, we will identify more leaders on and off the field of play. They will include those who are role models in terms of their abilities and what they have achieved. They will come from teams and individual sports, from sponsorship partners, from the media, from the administrative corridors of power and from places where influence may be subtle but no less powerful.
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