Ciaran Devane
Ciarán Devane joined Macmillan Cancer Support as chief executive in May 2007. In November 2012 he was elected as a trustee for NCVO.
He will leave Macmillan at the end of October 2014 to join the British Council as chief executive in January 2015.
He was educated at University College, Dublin where he gained first class honours in biochemical engineering. He also holds a Masters Degree in international policy from George Washington University, Washington DC. He worked for ICI for eight years before joining Gemini Consulting, an international management consultancy firm, where he became head of its UK Life Sciences Practice.
Devane serves as a member of the Cancer Reform Strategy Advisory Board and is a member of the National Stakeholder Forum of the NHS. Devane co-chairs the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative, and sits on the board of the National Cancer Intelligence Network.
Ciarán is also a non-executive director at Social Finance.
