Ian Browne joined Chartered Accountants Ireland as Head of Assessment and Syllabus in 2015.  Since then he oversaw a major syllabus re-launch and more recently led the delivery of our new E-Assessment project. He was appointed as Deputy Director Education in 2019.

Prior to joining the Institute, Ian was Academic Course Leader in a leading Dublin based Professional Accounting and Business College.  He also lectured at UCD Smurfit and Dublin University (Trinity College). Prior to this he had senior financial and accounting roles in a range of commercial entities.

Ronan O’Loughlin has been Director of Education and Training at CAI since 2003.

He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 1981 and spent many years working overseas in various accounting education projects.  He joined the Institute from the Irish Taxation Institute where he was Director of Education.  

Since joining the Institute Ronan was responsible for the development and enhancement of syllabi, examinations, education programme and training arrangements including alignment with the national education framework, an elective education model and increased international recognition of the Irish ACA.  

Ronan was a previous Technical Advisor to the IFAC Education Board Chair Henry Saville.