Director of the Ad Astra Academy Performing Arts Scholarship Programme
Tony Carey was awarded his B. Comm. (1987) and his MBS (1988) from UCD. On leaving university, he worked as a management consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and IBM Business Consulting Services for a total of fifteen years. In these roles he was primarily responsible for business development and the management of relationships with key clients, mainly in the financial services and educational sectors.
In a consulting capacity, he provided assistance to UCD in the development of proposals for the PRTLI processes, including The Conway Institute, The DMMC and The Urban Institute.
In 2003, he took up full-time employment with UCD as Director of Strategic Development to the Faculty of Medicine and he was subsequently appointed as Director of Strategic Planning to the University in September 2005. In this capacity, he is responsible for the development and coordination of the programme of strategic change necessary to deliver on the UCD Strategic Plan.