Mark Cumming brings together his life-long interest in community service, volunteering and international development in his role as Head of Comhlámh. As the Irish association of returned development workers and volunteers, Comhlámh supports people in their journey of working for social justice locally and globally.
His early formative career was in Human Resources with International and Irish owned industry. He worked as a volunteer youth and community worker in Kenya and later worked for several years in recruitment and selection for the Agency for Personal Service Overseas, an agency of Irish Aid. He spent 13 years with Trócaire (Caritas Ireland), across a range of governance and human rights programming, evaluation and policy/advocacy functions in Ireland and the Global South. He is passionate about the place of Development Education in international volunteering. He is a board member of Forum and the Irish Fairtrade Network. He has a Masters in Development Studies.