Martin Riordan is Chief Executive Officer of TAFE Directors Australia, the peak incorporated body representing Australian TAFE and technology institutes.

Martin was appointed as CEO to ‘TDA’ in 2006, following executive appointments with Federal Education (DEST) in Canberra, and an extended posting in Singapore. He was recruited to DEST on his relocation to Australia, and was a recipient team member in the Corporate Strategy Group of the DEST Secretary's Award for Excellence in 2005. During that period Martin was invited as a lecturer at Northern Sydney institute of TAFE NSW (Meadowbank campus, 2004-05), in the newly launched Diploma of Media and Communications.

Martin was awarded an Australian American Fulbright Professional Scholarship in 2009, to review financial models with non-government funding in the American Community College system. He holds a BA (Hons) undergraduate qualification from Macquarie University, and MBA from University of Technology Sydney. Martin has enjoyed further study at TAFE Institutes: Asian language studies at Sydney Institute of TAFE NSW, and information technology at Canberra Institute of Technology.

Martin is a Trustee of the Mick Young Scholarship Trust, a national student scholarship program which raises funds for disadvantaged students at TAFE Institutes.