Pensions Commission members announced
The Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy, yesterday announced the names of the seven people he would appoint to the National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission.
Mr Donal J Geaney, chairman and chief executive of Elan Corporation, will be chairman of the commission.
The other members will be: Mr Robert J Curran, second secretary in the Department of Finance; Ms Brid Horan, general manager, pensions, ESB; Dr Martin Kohlhaussen, chairman of the board of managing directors, Commerzbank, Frankfurt; Mr Donald C Roth, managing partner, the Emerging Markets Partnership, Washington DC; Mr Daniel P Tully, chairman emeritus of Merrill Lynch & Co; and Dr Michael Somers, chief executive of the National Treasury Management Agency.
Dr Somers will be an exofficio member of the commission. Mr Curran will retire from his current post before taking up his appointment.
Of the areas from which the legislation said commission members could be drawn, there was no representation granted to trade unions.
