David Cummings recently joined the Northern Ireland Civil Service through the Fast Stream Graduate Management Programme and has since worked on range of complex policy issues across a number of departments, including health, infrastructure, and most recently economy.

Prior to joining the public sector, David previously worked in academia and completed a government-funded doctoral thesis in French colonial literature whilst teaching at universities in Northern Ireland and France.

Following this, he worked in international sales as the lead account manager at a large multinational corporation for the European territories of France and Belgium.