Edel Clancy

Edel Clancy is Group Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs for Musgrave. Musgrave is a food retail, wholesale, foodservice and export group and one of Ireland’s largest companies.
Prior to joining Musgrave, Edel held a variety of senior global roles with Lucent Technologies based in the UK and previously with Eircell (now Vodafone) in Dublin. Edel spent six years in Brussels working for the European Commission, European Parliament and latterly as a consultant and European political lobbyist in the transport, agriculture and agrochemical industries.
She is a member of the Board of Retail Ireland within IBEC, an independent member of the Audit Committee of Cork County Council and in 2021 she joined the Board of Repak. A native of Limerick, Edel was educated in Ireland and the United States and holds postgraduate degrees in public policy and European political economy.