Gráinne Walsh
Senior Public Affairs Consultant
As a Senior Consultant with Stratagem, Gráinne advises some of Stratagem’s longest-term clients and has provided project management to a range of organisations working in complex legislative and regulatory environments. As a member of the management team, she plays a key role in all aspects of the business, with a lead responsibility in the areas of external communications and Stratagem’s award winning corporate social responsibility activities.
In her seven years with Stratagem, Gráinne has developed an expert knowledge and understanding of the energy arena both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, providing high level public affairs support and advice for a range of clients in the industry and sector.
Client work includes policy activity, communications and government relations with the Energy Saving Trust, ESBI, EAGA plc, firmus energy and AES, as well as EirGrid, National Energy Action and the Single Electricity Market Operator (SEMO), NIE Energy and BWEA/IWEA.
Other client work includes the League Against Cruel Sports, the Institute of Public Health in Ireland, CCEA, Belfast City Council, Chartered Institute for Environmental Health, Northern Ireland Confederation for Health Social Services (NICON), Sesame Workshop and Translink.
Gráinne regularly delivers Stratagem training courses and strategic planning for clients including Derry Well Woman Centre, Pobal, Equality 2000, Understanding Modern Government, the Consumer Council and GlaxoSmithKline.
Gráinne provides best practice support and training in the discipline of consultation and stakeholder management through her work with the Consultation Institute. Projects include stakeholder management for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Liquor Licensing Review for the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade Northern Ireland. She also led Stratagem's pioneering work on consultation processes with Monaghan County Council and Community Forum.
Gráinne Walsh grew up in Dublin, attending University College Dublin and then the University of Bergen, Norway, graduating with a BA (international) degree in History and Politics (1995). Having travelled in Canada and the USA, she moved to Belfast in 1997, completing an MA in Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast.
A Common Purpose graduate, Gráinne is council member of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as a board member of the Housing Rights Service and a Trustee of the Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust.