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Eoin Collins is an economist and social policy analyst and advocate. From 2006, he was Director of Policy in GLEN, a Dublin-based NGO, where he made a significant contribution to the enactment by the Irish government in 2010 of civil partnership legislation for same-sex couples. He was appointed in 2006 by the Minister for Justice as liaison to the department on sexual orientation issues and served on the Government (Colley) committee in 2006 that led to the enactment of civil partnership closely based on civil marriage.

He is a founding member and director of Nexus Research, a Dublin-based research consultancy where he worked from 1991 as an evaluator and social policy analyst. He was responsible for research and evaluation work across a range of issues, in particular, employment and social inclusion. His work included the national evaluation of the government’s job facilitator programme and a review of the application of the partnership principle in EU cohesion fund expenditure in Ireland. International work has included extensive work for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working conditions on the coordination of social welfare and active labour market measures and on the integration of minority ethnic groups.