Patrick dunne

Experienced Chair and board member

Patrick Dunne is an experienced Chair with extensive experience of working with boards in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Currently Chair of board consultancy Boardelta and the charities The EY Foundation and ESSA- Education Sub Saharan Africa.

Executive experience with Air Products and 3i Group plc where he was Communications Director, a member of its Operating Committee and Chairman of its Operational Risk forum.

Author of the award-winning “Boards” and three other successful books on the subject and was a member of the Higgs Review.

He also has extensive experience of developing social enterprises, most notably with Leap Confronting Conflict where he is Patron and was Chairman, from 2006 to 2015, with ESSA, the EY Foundation and with Warwick in Africa.

Patrick was awarded an OBE in the Kings Honours list in 2023 for services to charity and philanthropy in Africa and the UK.