Prof. Diarmuid Hegarty, BComm, LLB, is the President of Griffith College Ireland and Chairman of Friends of the Vocal Arts and served as Chairman of the Higher Education Quality Network from 2012-2013. Born in Dublin, he studied Commerce at University College Dublin and obtained a Barrister at Law degree at the Honorable Society of King’s Inn.

He speaks conversational Italian and Chinese and fluent French. He founded Griffith College as the Business and Accounting Training College in 1974, which was renamed Griffith College when it moved to the former Griffith Barracks in 1991.