Compliance Institute
Compliance Institute is the professional body for compliance professionals in Ireland. With over 3,700 members, it is the premier provider of education and professional development in compliance, providing an authoritative voice on matters relating to regulatory compliance and business ethics in industry in Ireland.
It is the largest global association of compliance professionals and offers the largest suite of compliance programmes and designations anywhere in the world.
Michael Kavanagh
Prior to that Michael was Director of DPP with KPMG Ireland, CEO of IAASA (The Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority), Head of Financial Reporting Supervision with IAASA and Technical Manager and Head of the practice review function at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He established Ireland’s statutory accounting enforcement function (tasked with examining whether the financial reports of listed entities comply with financial reporting standards) and oversaw the establishment of Ireland’s statutory Audit Inspection regime (tasked with inspecting the quality of audit work conducted by Ireland’s large audit firms) . For 12 years, he was the Irish Observer at the Corporate Reporting Council of the FRC which produces UK and Irish accounting standards. He was also Ireland’s representative at ESMA’s European Enforcers Co-ordination Sessions which is tasked with co-ordinating accounting enforcement across Europe having chaired a number of ESMA sub-committees. Michael has acted as examiner, moderator, lecturer and solution writer for various accountancy bodies.
Michael is a qualified accountant and a member of the Compliance Institute, Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA Ireland) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).
