[3] Dr Nigel Healey was Professor of International Higher Education and Vice-President of Global and Community Engagement at the University of Limerick until his retirement in October 2024.

During his time at the University of Limerick, he served as Interim Provost and Deputy President during the Covid-19 pandemic from September 2020 to June 2022, returning to his substantive position in July 2022.

Healey has served as an economic policy advisor to the prime minister of Belarus and the deputy minister of economy of the Russian Federation and managed a number of multinational research and economic development projects in different parts of the world.

[13] He is chair of the QS Global Advisory Committee which organises international higher education summits around the world each year, including the Middle-East and Africa (each March), Europe (each June), the Americas (each September) and the Asia-Pacific (each November).

Healey has previously served terms as a director of the Central Applications Office (CAO) in Ireland, governor of De Montfort University (Kazakhstan), a member of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU),[15] the Board of Trustees for the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) and the Council of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), a director of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management and the Chartered Association of Business Schools and a member of the National Management Committee for the Chartered Management Institute and Universities New Zealand Committee on International Policy.