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Morgan Buckley

Morgan leads Atlantic Sports Management (ASMT) and has worked with over 150 different organisations world-wide. Having lived and worked in the US, the UK and New Zealand he returned to Ireland in the mid 1990s to play a leading role in the development of a new sporting model for sport in Ireland working with the Government to establish the Irish Sports Council and advise the Minister on the first national sports policy.

Since then he been involved in working with leading sporting organisations in Ireland and globally and has extensive knowledge of sports planning, management, marketing, sponsorship, finance, facility operations, coaching, anti-doping, ethics, governance, re-structuring, high performance, sport science, sports medicine and sports technology.

Morgan has a Masters degree in Sport & Leisure Management from Victoria University, Wellington, NZ and BSc in Physiotherapy from Trinity College, Dublin. He has played and coached top level tennis and played rugby, Gaelic Football. He is involved in managing and administering sport on a voluntary basis with a number of organisations in Ireland. He has made many presentations at conferences in Ireland and internationally and regularly lectures on sports management courses.

In May 2010 he was appointed development general manager for the International Rugby Board.