Chartered Statistician Dr Jean Saunders is the founder of Claddagh Statistical Consultancy Services (CSCS). Jean set up CSCS following her retirement from the Statistical Consulting Unit at the University of Limerick (UL) which she established in 2001. At UL, Jean was responsible for providing biostatistical consultancy and training services within the university and to the Health Service Executive (HSE), and chaired several research ethics committees. She has collaborated on many successful grant bids and was Director of the Limerick Centre for Statistical Training in Analysis and Research (Cstar), funded by the Health Research Board in collaboration with UCD. Prior to joining UL, Jean was CEO at CSCS UK, and before this, was Principal Statistician/Manager of the statistics group at ASRU, which offered statistical consultancy services to pharma, universities and the NHS. She was also a Senior Research Fellow at the universities of Kent and Greenwich. Among her many memberships, Jean is Vice-Chair of the University of Limerick Hospital REC, and sits on the HSE REC Reform and the HSE Consent Policy working groups for health research. She was also a member of the National Research Ethics Committee for COVID-19 during its tenure from April to August 2020, in addition to the CT ethics committees’ National Working Group that worked towards a single ethics application process for all health research in Ireland. More broadly, Jean is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a member of the International Biometric Society; the European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry; and Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry. With extensive experience advising on phase I–IV clinical trials, she joins the committee as Deputy Chairperson with a particular interest in research ethics in the context of older adults and Public & Patient Involvement (PPI) in clinical trials.