Mark McAllister

Mark McAllister is the Chief Executive of the Labour Relations Agency and has worked in all frontline services over his 25-year career with the Agency.  As Director of Employment Relations Services, he implemented a series of transformational reforms which will make the Agency future fit for the next 25 years.  Prior to joining the Agency, Mark was a legal academic and a regional trade union negotiator in the further and higher education sector.  He is an experienced mediator, author and contributor to employment law publications and a regular speaker on the employment law circuit in Northern Ireland.  Mark is a former Convenor for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (NI) and Chair of the Governance Institute (NI).