Regina Lynch, 66, hails from Northern Ireland and is the Executive President of the Pontifical Foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). She has worked at the international headquarters of ACN in Königstein im Taunus, Germany, since 1980; in 2008, she took over the role of project director and became annually responsible for 6,000 of ACN’s projects in more than 140 countries. In more than 40 years, she has made numerous trips to beneficiary countries and nurtured relationships with project partners, branches of the Church, and other charities.