Lynn Carvill

Lynn is Chief Executive of WOMEN’STEC, an organisation specialising in the delivery of skills training and the promotion of opportunities in sectors and careers where women are typically under-represented.

Lynn is also convenor of the Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group and has a keen interest in gender equality issues in relation to women’s economic position and labour market participation. She has held a number of policy and advocacy roles in the women’s sector and earlier in her career established the Organisation of the Unemployed: Northern Ireland, the northern division of the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed. In 2010 she developed a project which culminated in the publication of the seminal research report ‘The Northern Ireland Economy: Women on the Edge?’