Ken O’Sullivan

Ken O’Sullivan BComm (UCC), MBS(UCD), FCA, FIB(IOB)

Ken is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, Fellow of the Institute of Banking and completed his accounting training with PwC. He graduated from University College Cork with a BComm and from University College Dublin with an MBS.

A former accounting lecturer at the University of Limerick, he has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate levels and on various professional accounting education programmes being the senior financial reporting lecturer with BPP Ireland for over 20 years.

Ken is the Director of Risk Management Education at the Institute of Banking and the Head Strategic Advisor to Mr. John Trethowan at the Governments Credit Review Office. He is a former General Manager Business Banking and Corporate and Institutional Banking with Danske Bank Ireland and was a member of the Executive Committee. He was Head of the Business Credit team at the Central Bank of Ireland and led the CBI credit and asset quality interaction with the Troika and responsible for the delivery of all credit related projects. He was a member of the Government working committee established to set up the Loan Guarantee Scheme for the SME sector.

Whilst in the Central Bank of Ireland he led the following projects:

• 2012, 2011, 2010- Central Bank of Ireland’s asset quality reviews, data validation and integrity reviews of the Irish Covered Financial Institutions (AIB, BOI, PTSB, EBS, Anglo) mandated by the Troika under the Financial Measures Programme for Ireland (PCAR and PLAR);
• 2011- Authored the Central Bank of Ireland Impairment Provisioning and Disclosure Guidelines which set out the CBI best practice guidelines regarding the accounting policies, procedures and disclosures which the State supported Covered Institutions should adopt for loans and receivables financial assets.