About the Commissioner
Siobhan Casey has been the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland since April 2025.
Siobhan formerly served as Director of Marketing & Business Development at Age NI for 15 years. She led key initiatives and secured programme funding for various high-profile campaigns.
Siobhan is the European Vice-President of the International Federation on Ageing, a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, and a member of Age UK’s Services for Older People’s Consortium. She was also part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Advisory Committee (2022-24). A graduate of Ulster University, she holds multiple post-graduate qualifications in business, marketing, and brain health.
A recognised business leader with extensive experience working in international marketing, business development and strategic development with SME’s through to multi-national organisations, private and public sector bodies.
The role of the Commissioner
The role of the Commissioner involves:
- Raising awareness of the interests of older people in Northern Ireland and of the need to safeguard those interests.
- Promoting the provision of opportunities for, and the elimination of discrimination against, older people in Northern Ireland.
- Encouraging best practice in the treatment of older people in Northern Ireland.
- Keeping under review the adequacy and effectiveness of law affecting the interests of older people in Northern Ireland.
- Undertaking investigations into how service providers take account of the rights, interests, and views of older people in the decisions they take and the work they do in relation to devolved matters.
The full powers and duties of the Commissioner are laid out in the Commissioner for Older People Act 2011
