Annual_Report2014

Annual Report 2014
Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority
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3.2. Directors’ biographies
Set out below are brief biographies of those
persons who were members of the Board as at
the date of issue of this Report, i.e. 30 April 2015.
The Board composition at year end and changes
in directors since the last Annual Report are
tabulated in Appendix 1.
Brendan Walsh is Professor Emeritus in the School
of Economics at University College Dublin. He is
author of several studies of the Irish economy. He
has served as a consultant on numerous public
bodies in Ireland and has worked for the OECD, the
World Bank and the Harvard Institute of International
Development. He is currently a member of the
European Statistical Advisory Committee (Eurostat).
Helen Hall is an accountant, having trained with
PwC in Dublin. After her time with PwC, she spent
time in Malawi where she worked with the United
Nations, the World Bank, and subsequently as
an audit partner with Deloitte. She subsequently
served as a senior internal audit manager with the
United Nations World Food Programme, based
in Rome, before returning to Ireland in 2006 to
serve as IAASA’s Head of Regulatory & Monitoring
Supervision from 2006 to 2012.
Deirdre Behan is a Principal Officer in the Business
Taxes Division of the Revenue Commissioners
and is responsible for corporation tax policy,
legislation and interpretation. Previously, Deirdre
managed the Financial Services (Banking)
Branch in Revenue’s Large Cases Division. Her
career experience included a secondment to the
Department of Finance where she worked on
policy development for the International Financial
Services Centre. Deirdre holds an M.Sc. in Taxation
and is an Associate of the Irish Tax Institute.
Marie Daly is Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs
and the in-house legal advisor with IBEC. She
qualified as a solicitor in 1987, working initially in
Dublin Corporation’s Law Department before joining
the then Federation of Irish Employers in 1991 as an
employment solicitor. She is also a member of the
Company Law Review Group (‘CLRG’) and the High
Level Group on Business Regulation.
Máiréad Devine is the Head of Risk, Governance
and Accounting Policy in the Central Bank.
Máiréad was previously a director in the PwC
Regulatory Advisory Services team where
she specialised in the provision of prudential,
governance, risk management and compliance
services across the financial services spectrum.
Máiréad previously worked as a prudential
specialist with PwC UK in the Financial Services
Regulatory Practice. Prior to that, she was a
manager in the Regulatory Policy Division at the
Bank of England. She started her career as an
Economist in the Economic Analysis and Research
Department of the Central Bank. Máiréad holds
a Bachelor of Business Studies and a Master of
Letters (Financial Economics) from Trinity College
Dublin.
David Devlin was a partner in PwC in Dublin
until 30 September 2012. He continued with the
PwC global network for a further year, most
recently as Leader, Public Policy and Regulatory
Affairs for PwC’s network firms in Europe. David
was a member of the EC European Corporate
Governance Forum from 2005 to 2011. He is a
past President of FEE, the European Federation
of Accountants, having served two terms from
2002 to 2006. He was for two terms a member
of International Federation of Accountants’
(‘IFAC’) International Ethics Standards Board
for Accountants, which is responsible for the
profession’s global Ethics Code. Previously he
has been a member of the Supervisory Board
of the European Financial Reporting Advisory
Group, established to advise the EC, and of the
Urgent Issues Task Force of the United Kingdom
Accounting Standards Board (now Accounting
Council of the FRC). David has been honoured
with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the ICAI
and with honorary life membership by both the
ACCA in the UK and the ICPAI. He is a director of
Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin; a member
of the Board of Management of CBC Monkstown;
and chair of the European Corporate Governance
Institute in Brussels.