Eugene O’Callaghan served as the Director (CEO) of Ireland’s sovereign wealth fund, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) and its predecessor the National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF), from 2010 to 2021. ISIF has a “double bottom line” mandate to invest on a commercial basis to support economic activity and employment in Ireland. NPRF invested via investment managers globally across all asset classes with a mandate to achieve optimal long-term return subject to acceptable levels of risk. The NPRF became the ISIF in 2014. He was previously Head of Investment Manager Programme with the NPRF. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee for the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) (2017-2021). Eugene joined NPRF in 2005 from Irish Life Investment Managers, Ireland’s largest investment management firm, where he had been chief operating officer in addition to numerous other roles in a 15-year tenure. Prior to that he lived in New Zealand for five years where he worked in an investment bank and in a major accounting firm. Today, Eugene is an advisor to investment funds and businesses. He is Co-Founder of EHA Advisory, a boutique advisory firm that supports the re-design, reshaping and implementation of sovereign and long-term investment funds based on global best practice standards, and he is a member of the Faculty Board of the SWF Academy. He is a chartered accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin.