Damian Brennan is a senior manager in the Financial Integrity Division in the Central Bank of Ireland. In this role, Damian leads the Strategy and Coordination team with responsibility for developing the Central Bank’s AML/CFT and financial crime supervisory strategies along with responsibility for coordinating with key stakeholders domestically and at the EU and wider international level. Damian has extensive international experience having worked as an assessor on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Mutual Evaluations of the UK in 2017-2018 and Germany in 2021-2022 where he was responsible for assessing the effectiveness of AML/CFT supervision and preventive measures. Damian is a member of Ireland’s delegation to FATF and was a member of the FATF project team which drafted the FATF’s Risk Based Supervision Guidance that was published in 2021, and from 2020 to 2022 was a member of project teams which revised the FATF’s Methodology and Mutual Evaluation process for the next round of FATF assessments. In January 2024, Damian was invited to appear at an expert hearing in the Bundestag where along with other experts provided views on Germany’s draft law to establish a federal AML/CFT agency. Damian has worked in the Central Bank of Ireland since 2001 having held roles in the legal and enforcement areas prior to moving into the AML/CFT area in 2010. Damian holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and Masters in Commercial Law degrees from University College Dublin.
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