David Howard is the Director of the Property Industry Group in Ibec, including Property Industry Ireland (PII), and the Building Materials Federation and its affiliated associations since February 2025. David joined Ibec in 2013 initially as Policy Executive for PII and then later served as Senior Property Policy Executive. During this period David also served two secondments with Ibec’s Financial Services Ireland trade association, firstly as Senior Regulatory Affairs Executive and later as FSI Deputy Director.
Prior to joining Ibec David worked for several trade associations in Brussels including in the automotive battery, candle, plant hire and gas industries. David is a native of Galway and holds B Comm and LLB degrees from University of Galway.