Gareth Edwards graduated with a degree in Law from Queen’s University Belfast and has nearly twenty years’ experience working in financial services in Dublin and Belfast, specialising in regulatory and compliance issues relating to the investment fund and banking industries.

Now living in Belfast, Gareth is father to an active seven-year-old son.

He is passionate about enabling the growth of the Northern Ireland economy to create quality local opportunities for its talented young people and to stem the ‘brain drain’ of graduates who move away from Northern Ireland for university study and never return here to live and work.