Insights

Meet our delegates

Each edition of CEEC Inside carries an interview with one of our delegates — about their work, their career, and what membership of CEEC has meant to them professionally. The most recent interviews are collected here — every earlier edition can be read through the newsletter archive at the end of this page.

CEEC Inside: Steven Thompson

March 2026

CEEC Inside: Steven Thompson

I was born in Hove on the Sussex coast (next door to Brighton – for football fans!) and I grew up there, went to school in Hove and started my first job at the age of 19 in a small QS practice in the town.…

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CEEC Inside: Gerry O’Sullivan

September 2025

CEEC Inside: Gerry O’Sullivan

I was born and raised in the same house in Dublin. When I left school in 1973, I started work as an apprentice quantity surveyor on my father’s advice that it was a good career (he had a very good friend…

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CEEC Inside: Mary Flynn

February 2025

CEEC Inside: Mary Flynn

I was born in Co. Sligo, often referred to as Yeats’s County named after the poet W. Butler Yates and his equally famous painter brother Jack Yeats. I had a traditional academic schooling at the Convent of…

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