We are leaders for peaceful change

John Hume always preferred to speak face to face, one to one. Pat spent years immersed in the day-to-day running of the constituency office. Above all, what was important to them was the people they worked for; people from all walks of life, of all creeds and ethnicities.

John and Bill Clinton in Derry.

Our board and patrons

We are committed to openness and inclusiveness. Our board is composed of people young and old, from diverse backgrounds and communities, who bring a breadth of experience and a range of different viewpoints to everything we do.

Board members

John Hume Jnr – Foundation Chair

Founding Partner Hume Brophy Communications

Dawn Purvis – Foundation Vice-Chair

Head of Corporate Affairs at Choice Housing Ireland Limited, Former MLA and Leader Progressive Unionist Party

Professor Seán Farren

Former Minister for Higher & Further Education, and Finance, Northern Ireland Executive.

Mark Durkan

Former deputy First Minister NI Executive, Member of Parliament and SDLP Leader

Professor Paul Arthur

Professor of Politics, Emeritus Director of the Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies Ulster University

Seán Donlon

Retired Irish diplomat

Mike Nesbitt MLA

MLA for Strangford 2011-Present. Leader, Ulster Unionist Party 2011-2017.
Former broadcast journalist.

Mary McIvor

Assistant to Judge at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg

Tom Arnold

Former CEO of Concern Worldwide and Chair of the Irish Constitutional Convention.

Hugh Logue

Former European Commission official, and EU envoy to establish, with John Hume, EU Peace Package. Founder member of SDLP and elected with John Hume for Derry constituency.

Kieran McLoughlin

Managing Partner, VentureWave Capital Ltd,  member of Advisory Board of the Smurfit Business School and Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, Strategic Advisor to Endeavor Ireland.

Sara Canning

Study Support Officer in Altnagelvin Area Hospital and campaigner for truth, justice and equality

Professor Mo Hume

School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Linda Ervine

Lauren Kerr

Paula Kelly

Doire Finn

Tim Attwood

Foundation Secretary, former Councillor Belfast City Council

Patrons

Former President of Ireland Mary McAleese
Martin McAleese
Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Senator George J. Mitchell
Séamus Mallon (posthumously)

ADVISORY COUNCIL

  • Aine (Hume) Abbott
  • Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach
  • Brid Rodgers
  • Professor Arthur Aughey
  • Lord Paul Bew
  • Dr. Mark Brennan
  • Professor John Coakley
  • Dr Shelley Deane
  • David Donoghue
  • Dr Michael Doyle
  • Lord Alf Dubs
  • Maurice Fitzpatrick
  • Professor Anne Gilliland
  • Eamon Gilmore, EU Special Rep for Human Rights
  • Pat Goggins
  • Mary Harney, former Tánaiste
  • Rev. Harold Good
  • Denis Haughey
  • Professor Katy Hayward
  • Aidan Hume
  • Terese Hume
  • Rev Chris Hudson
  • Fergal Keane
  • Enda Kenny, former Taoiseach
  • Gerry Cosgrove
  • Mary Pat Kelly
  • Wally Kirwan
  • Pierre Joannon
  • Professor Brigid Laffan
  • Professor Monica McWilliams
  • Kristin M Leary, Frederick Douglas Family initiatives
  • Michael Lillis
  • Anne Logue
  • Willie McCarter
  • Tony McCusker
  • Dympna McGlade
  • Joe Mulholland
  • Rory Montgomery
  • Lord Paul Murphy
  • Daithí Ó Ceallaigh
  • Liz O’Donnell
  • Andy Pollak
  • Ruairi Quinn
  • Dr Robert Ramsay
  • Catherine Shannon
  • James Sharkey
  • Ted Smyth
  • Nancy Soderberg
  • Professor Jennifer Todd
  • Ian White
The John & Pat Hume Foundation acknowledges the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Reconciliation Fund.