Grainia Long

Grainia Long is Belfast’s first Commissioner for Resilience, appointed in June 2018. She is also Senior Independent Director of Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, a housing association with 58,000 homes across London and elsewhere in England. From 2015-2018, she was Chief Executive of the ISPCC- the national child protection charity in Ireland, and from 2011-2015 was Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, an international professional body for people who work in housing. She served two terms as a Commissioner in the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, from 2011 to 2017.