Maura Quinn is tucked away in a corner of the Iveagh Hotel on Harcourt Street in Dublin 2 when we met. Over the course of an hour, our conversation ranges from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the financial regulator Patrick Neary, to the actor Liam Neeson to her plans for the Institute of Directors (IoD), the organisation she has led for the last 13 years. Quinn has had a fascinating career that has taken her from business consulting to the charity sector to leading UNICEF in Ireland, before building up the IoD into a leader in company director training…

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