Mary Harney
Non-Executive Independent Director
Administration
Biocon
India
Biography
Ms. Mary Harney is Non-Executive Independent Director of Biocon Limited., since April 26, 2012. She was a member of the Irish Parliament for over thirty years and was a Government Minister for seventeen years in Environment, Economic and in Health Ministries. She was Deputy Prime Minister for over nine years. She is an economics graduate of Trinity College Dublin. She was the longest serving woman ever in the Irish Parliament and in 1993 became the only woman to have led a political party in Ireland. She retired from politics in January 2011 and is now involved in business. She is a director of several technology companies as well as an insurance company in Ireland. She is a member of the Board of CRANN Trinity College Dublin’s largest research institute and is chair of AMBER, the Advanced Materials and Bio-Engineering Research Centre at Trinity, a joint research enterprise with University College Cork, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and industry. She is on the board of the Hospice Foundation of Ireland and is an honorary member of the International Women’s Forum
Research Interest
Chemical Engineering
