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Dr Hugh R. Brady MB BCh MD FRCPI PhD is President and Chief Officer of University College Dublin. He was an academic of Medicine and Therapeutics in UCD before becoming the eighth President of the University.

The position of President carries a salary of approximately €205,000 and includes a residence just off the Belfield campus - University Lodge in Greenfield. Dr Brady is married to Dr Yvonne O Meara and they have three children (triplets) Daire, Oisin and Tristan. Dr Brady was appointed President at age 43, - the youngest university president in Ireland.

Born in Dublin in 1959, Hugh Brady, the son of a bank official, had to get used to change from an early age. Until he was fourteen, Hugh Brady wanted to be a vet, but then switched to medicine.

After finishing at Newbridge College, Hugh won a place in UCD’s former Faculty of Medicine. He earned a degree in pharmacology and worked as a junior hospital doctor for three years. He then moved to Toronto, Canada. A year later, he went to Harvard University in Boston where he directed the renal division of a university affiliate hospital while serving on the academic staff.

At the end of 1996, Hugh returned to Ireland with his young family – which by now included triplet sons.

At the Mater Hospital where he took over a senior clinical post (as an academic of Medicine), he operated as part of a team of just three nephrologists. This small group, moreover, spent half their time on teaching and research activity.

Dr Brady took over the University Presidency in January 2004 succeeding Dr Art Cosgrove who completed his 10 years in office at that stage. Brady has attracted significant controversy since the beginning of his tenure, many of the scandals being likened to Margaret Thatcher's 'milk snatching' policy of the 80s.

He is currently involved in a controversy over his (and the presidents of the other universities of Ireland) demands for pay rises of up to €135,000.