Invest Northern Ireland is on the hunt for a new chair after the incumbent said she will step down from the position at the end of this month.
Rose Mary Stalker has said she won’t be seeking a further extension of her current term when it comes to an end on 31 st January. Her official three-year term as chair came to an end in July 2022 but had been extended by the then economy minister Gordon Lyons while an independent review of the organisation was carried out.
Released last week, the review pulled no punches in its assessment that the agency was having a limited impact on the province’s productivity and needs wholesale reform if it is to be fit for purpose. It singled out the board, and the chair in particular, for becoming “too operational”, but conceded that may approach may be due to “a perceived lack of transparency within the organisation.
