Michael Walsh has been a Director of AerCap since May 5, 2017. He is also Chair of Shannon Foynes Port Company and a non-executive director of Uisce Eireann (the Irish government-owned national water utility) and of Limerick Civic Trust. He previously served as a Non-Executive Director, including Chairman, of a number of companies that finance and lease aircraft and trains worldwide, and has over 30 years' experience as a non-executive director, senior executive and commercial lawyer in the aircraft leasing and financing industry. In 1989 he joined GPA Group plc and held senior management positions including General Counsel; following GPA's acquisition by debis AirFinance in 2000 he was appointed General Counsel of debis AirFinance until 2002. From 2003 to 2005 he was Chief Legal Officer of Bord Gais Eireann, and from 1986 to 1989 he was a diplomat in the Irish Diplomatic Service. Mr. Walsh is a barrister and a law graduate of University College, Cork.