Anne Molloy was part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team for Northern Ireland, from January 2014 until December 2024. Initially engaged as a Programme Officer, she took on the role of managing the ICRC’s Community Based Protection Programme in 2016 and its successor, Frontline Humanitarian Negotiators Network (FHNN) which she established and coordinated. Anne was appointed Head of Office in January 2019. Anne remains closely involved with the FHNN through the Belfast unemployed Resource Centre (BURC) which now co-ordinates the network, and which Anne is a Board Member of.
Between 2004 and 2014, Anne was Regional Development Coordinator for county Donegal with Pobal (pobal.ie), which administers and manages Government and EU funding to address disadvantage and support social inclusion, where she continued engagement in Northern Ireland and participated in negotiations which led to the ceasefire and decommissioning of one of the armed groups n 2009/2010, and the August 2010 Agreement between the Prison Service at Maghaberry and republican detainees.
Anne’s career started with and was heavily influenced by her experience as a volunteer with Concern in Sudan 1985-87, during the peak of the famine and conflicts in Sudan and the Horn of Africa. After a few years abroad teaching Anne worked in various roles with the NI Cooperative Development Agency/Social Economy Agency (1990-2014), as Agency Manager for her final two years. Her work involved supporting the most marginalised and disenfranchised communities to establish their own collective forms of economy – much of her work focused within loyalist communities and armed groups.
She holds a Masters in Social Policy Planning and Research. As well as being an accredited trainer, she holds a certificate as an Advanced Professional Negotiation from CCHN.