Fionnuala May FRIAI Elected as RIAI President 2026-2027

Fionnuala May FRIAI is the RIAI President for 2026-2027.

Fionnuala served previously as RIAI First Vice-President and is a member of RIAI Council, County Architect and Fingal County Council. Fionnuala May FRIAI, Dip. Arch., B. Arch. Sc. (Hons), MUBC, has contributed across many areas of the RIAI including education, conservation and governance. She has worked to strengthen the position of the Architect within the public service and private sector and to promote the role of Architecture in public policy.

Fionnuala trained as an architect in the Dublin Institute of Technology and graduated in 1988. She worked in private practice on mainstream and conservation projects before undertaking the Master of Urban and Building Conservation degree in University College Dublin (awarded in 1994).

Fionnuala joined the public service as an Architect for Fingal County Council in 1994 and served as a Housing Architect 1994-2000, Conservation Officer from 2000-2006 and Public Buildings Architect 2006-2011. Since then, she has held the post of County Architect. The Architects Department in Fingal are practitioners across housing, public buildings corporate offices and heritage buildings.

Fionnuala holds accreditation as a Grade 1 Conservation Architect from the RIAI. She is a member of ICOMOS Ireland, the Heritage Contractors Registration Board, the IGS, and the Historic Building Committee of the RIAI. She serves on the board of the Heritage Council (2016-2025) and is a member of the Board of the Irish Architectural Archive.