Our Committee
It gives us great pleasure to give you the opportunity to meet our team. We are a young and energetic charity with ambitions to grow in order to provide quality education and support in underprivileged communities. Our committee in Ireland consists of eight individuals who have all visited Calcutta on numerous occasions and are passionate about bringing about real change in the lives of all the young people we help. The committee contains individuals who can draw on their experience from here in Ireland and India to contribute towards Calcutta Connect having the greatest impact possible in the communities we work and we meet regularly to discuss our current and future work. In Calcutta, we are lucky to have an excellent project manager in Baren Mondal who oversees all of our programmes for us throughout the year. Meet our team and those in the key positions in Calcutta Connect.
Meet Our Team
Having traveled to India for the first time in 2008, Alan returns to Calcutta each year to work with and grow the projects we support, spending time developing further programmes and working closely with the students in all our centres. Alan completed his degree in mathematics and music technology in N.U.I. Maynooth in 2012 and works in the IT industry.
Ian first traveled to India in 2003 and returned on two occasions since most recently as a group leader of the Coláiste Éanna India Immersion Project 2010. He is also founder and CEO of IST Systems a company specializing in Computer Networking and Hardware.
Emily Lyon
Emily graduated from UCD with an International Bachelor of Social Science in 2015 and completed a Masters in Women, Gender & Society in UCD in 2016. She has volunteered with UCD Volunteers Overseas in the Northeast India project as Student Leader in 2015 and as Team Leader in 2017. She visited Calcutta with Calcutta Connect committee members in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Emily currently works in the development sector.
Having first traveled to India as a pupil with the school in 2006, Alan returns to Calcutta regularly to work with the projects and students we support in the city. He spent the summer of 2012 in Calcutta teaching in our schools and assisting with the furtherance of the vocational training programme. Alan completed a Business and Law Degree in UCD in 2011 and recently qualified as a solicitor.
Ciarán first traveled to Calcutta in 2002 as a participant in the Coláiste Éanna India Immersion Project. He subsequently returned to Calcutta with the school in 2004 and 2008 as a group leader. Ciarán has a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and currently practices as an employment solicitor in Dublin. In both 2016 & 2018 Ciarán returned to Calcutta to visit the projects supported by Calcutta Connect. Ciarán also serves on the committee of the Law Society’s Calcutta Run.
Emmet traveled to India in 2010 as part of the Colaiste Eanna India Immersion Project. He completed his degree in Accounting & Finance and his masters in Accounting in DCU. Emmet works for Ernst and Young as an accountant and he returned to Kolkata in February 2018 to visit the projects supported by Calcutta Connect.
In India
