Brian James Hillery (22 November 1937 – 19 January 2021) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and finance executive who served as a Senator from 1977 to 1982, 1983 to 1989 and 1992 to 1997 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 1989 to 1992.
In 1978, minister Gene Fitzgerald's suggestion that he chair the Commission on Industrial Relations was rejected by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions as party-political.
[7] At the 1992 general election, he lost his Dáil seat, which Barry Desmond attributed to a lack of constituency work.
[10][11] He then became a director and, from 1999, chairman, of UniCredit's Irish operations at the Dublin International Financial Services Centre.
[16][18] The Oireachtas joint committee of inquiry into the post-2008 banking crisis initially intended to ask him to make a statement but did not proceed with this.