Meadhbha Monaghan is the CEO of PCC-NI, a powerful, independent voice for the public in health and social care in Northern Ireland. As a system leader, Meadhbha is responsible for strategy, risk, governance and ensuring PCC delivers on its statutory functions.

Meadhbha has over ten years’ experience in the homelessness, harm reduction and refugee sectors across UK and Ireland; delivering frontline services and engaging at a strategic level in policy design and service development. In 2015 she completed a Global Health Corps Fellowship, based in the US co-ordinating harm reduction services across Washington DC. Meadhbha holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall where she was elected a Bateman Scholar, and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford where she was awarded the Olson Scholarship in Refugee Studies. In 2025 Meadhbha completed a Centre for Peace and Democracy Fellowship.