Biography
Seána Cunningham was appointed Director of Insurance on 1 January 2025. As Director of Insurance, she is responsible for leading and overseeing the supervision of the domestic and international (Re)Insurance undertakings. This involves supervision of individual firms and across the sector across all of the Bank’s regulatory and supervisory responsibilities (consumer & investor interests, safety & soundness, integrity of the system and financial stability).
Previously Seána was Director of Enforcement and Anti-Money Laundering from January 2018, and prior to this, she was Head of Enforcement Advisory Division and Deputy Head of the Anti-Money Laundering Division at the Central Bank. She joined the Central Bank in 2011, having previously worked as a solicitor for over a decade in private practice in Ireland and the UK.