Announcing the appointment, Chair of Concern’s Board, Donal D’Arcy said: “With a wealth of relevant experience, David has worked across many different countries and cultures and is widely respected for his leadership, commitment and professionalism. His experience with Accenture’s public sector clients around the world includes organisational strategy and transformation and major technology programmes.

“David is passionately committed to social justice, to ending global hunger and poverty and has retained a strong interest and long involvement in development and humanitarian work. Most recently David travelled to Malawi as part of Accenture’s support for Concern’s Conservation Agriculture projects there.”

According to Concern Worldwide, the agency last year helped a total of 39 million people in 24 of the poorest countries in the world, spending €217 million on emergency, livelihoods, health, nutrition and education programming as well as development education and advocacy.