Michael Kavangh was elected as vice president of CPA Ireland in 2023.

Michael Kavanagh was elected to the Council of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA Ireland) in 2018.

Michael is currently CEO of the Compliance Institute (formally ACOI) , a Board member and Chair of the audit committee of Carmichael, vice chair of the Sport Ireland/FAI Governance Oversight Group and current Chair of the Education Committee of the Institute.

Prior to that he was Director of DPP with KPMG Ireland, CEO of IAASA (The Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority) having previously been Head of Financial Reporting Supervision with the organisation. He established Ireland's statutory accounting enforcement function (tasked with examining whether the financial reports of listed entities comply with financial reporting standards) and oversaw the establishment of Ireland's statutory Audit Inspection regime (tasked with inspecting the quality of audit work conducted by Ireland's large audit firms).  For 12 years, he was the Irish Observer at the Corporate Reporting Council of the FRC which produced UK and Irish accounting standards. He was also Ireland's representative at ESMA's European Enforcers Co-ordination Sessions which is tasked with co-ordinating accounting enforcement across Europe having chaired a number of ESMA sub-committees.

In the past, Michael has been a member of numerous CPA committees and chaired the Institute's Financial Reporting Committee.  He has acted in the past as examiner, lecturer, solution writer and moderator for a number of accountancy bodies’ professional exams and was a frequent presenter on auditing and accounting matters at accountancy body Continuing Professional Development events.