Membership options // FOUNDATION

Foundation Membership offers the best access and opportunities for your organisation. Foundation members are the life-blood of the Institute and provide its core funding.

Your contribution will help to shape the future of public policy. These are the strategic issues which we have identified and you might get some benefit from them and you might recognise the need for a forum.

Right: Foundation Members meeting Nobel Prize Winning Harvard Economist, Joseph Stiglitz, at the Institute of European Affairs in 2006.

As a Foundation Member you can enjoy privileged one-to-one access to key national and international decision makers, European Commissioners and MEPs, whose activities have an impact on your business sectors and environments.

Our Foundation Members interact with their sectoral peers at Foundation Members-only events such as the Foundation Members seminars and dinner.

Left: Peter Sutherland (Chairman of BP and of Goldman Sachs) chats with Garret FitzGerald (former Taoiseach (Prime Minister)) and Will Hutton (Governor of the London School of Economics and former editor of The Observer) during a coffee break at the Institute.

Foundation membership is transferable and allows you to decide how many and who of your senior personnel to send to seminars on their specialist areas.

Right: Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy, visited the Institute of European Affairs and met Foundation Members two weeks after the release of his white paper on energy in March 2006.

You can make an input into the Institute's research/events agenda, particularly at the twice-yearly review of our Research Programme.

Left: Brian Cowan, Minister for Finance, speaks to press outside the yellow door of Europe House following a private briefing to the Institute.

Foundation Members can take advantage of priority access to the Institute's city centre venue & catering.

Right: Europe House (centre), the venue of the Institute of European Affairs, is located in Dublin city centre.

Additional benefits include tailored briefings on policy areas of interest to your organisation and opportunities for Continuous Professional Development programmes and executive education.

Left: Foundation Members meet British Airways Chairman, Martin Broughton, at the Institute of European Affairs in 2006.

By sponsoring institute events Foundation Members can make an impact on the wider membership through focused  brand recognition of their support in our publications, on our website, and at any events that attract media attention.

Please address all IEA Foundation Member queries to Martin Murray, Director of Development, email: martin.murray@iiea.com or telephone directly on 0872688805.

Our existing Foundation Members:

Many leading companies and organisations are heavily involved in the Institute. Among these, we are particularly please to acknowledge our Foundation Members, whose support has allowed the Institute to continuously expand its activities, and enhance its impact.

AIB Bank plc ; Bank of Ireland ; Bord na Mona ; CIE ; Construction Industry Federation (CIF) ; Cement Roadstone Holdings plc ; Deloitte ; DePfa-Bank plc ; Diageo ; Dublin Airport Authority ; Electricity Supply Board ; Enterprise Ireland ; Failte Ireland ; FBD Insurances plc ; FORFAS ; Glen Dimplex ; Goldman Sachs ; IBEC ; IDA ; IFA ; National Treasury Management Agency ; NTRplc; Pioneer Investment Management Ltd. ;
RTE ; Siemens Ltd ; SIPTU ; State Street International ;Smurfit (Ireland) Ltd ; Tourism Ireland ;
VHI ; Waterford Crystal plc.