From Insight to Impact: Leading the Next Phase of Sustainable Finance
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Wed, 10 June 2026
12:00 - 13:00
Location
Your event link is available via IOB Learn
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Wed, 10 June 2026
12:00 - 13:00
Location
Your event link is available via IOB Learn
Join Diarmuid Murphy and Deirdre Timmons for an information session on the Professional Diploma in ESG and Sustainable Finance Leadership
This programme is designed to equip financial services professionals and aspiring leaders with the theory and practice underpinning ESG and Sustainable Finance Leadership and the capability to design, develop, implement an appropriate ESG business strategy. This award is on the Pathway to MSc in Financial Services. During the session, Diarmuid and Deirdre will discuss how the sustainability agenda is evolving, including what recent European policy simplification measures and ongoing disruption in fuel and energy markets mean for strategy, opportunity and leadership. They will also explore lessons emerging from outside the EU and how these can inform decision making and governance in an Irish and European context. Participants will leave the session with a clearer understanding of the focus and structure of the diploma, the leadership capabilities it aims to develop, and how the programme supports practical ESG decision making in a rapidly changing policy and market environment.
This event will automatically close midnight the day before or if its fully booked
There is 0.5 CPD hours available for the holders of the following designations:
QFA
CPD Member
Registered Stockbroker
Licentiate of Compliance Institute
Professional Banker
Chartered Banker
Certified Bank Director
Certified Investment Fund Director
Fellow of Compliance Institute (Ethics)
Fellow of Compliance Institute (Compliance)
Wealth Management Professional
Retirement Planning Professional
Certified Sustainable Finance Compliance Professional
MCI
Accredited Funds Professional
Diarmuid Murphy
Director of Executive Education, Sustainability & International Markets, IOB
Diarmuid is Director of Executive Education, Sustainability & International Markets with IOB. Diarmuid joined IOB in January 2025 and currently leads IOB’s extensive commitments to support ESG, culture, diversity, and inclusion within the financial services sector.
He also leads IOB’s executive education portfolio and the growth of IOB’s offerings internationally. Before joining IOB, Diarmuid spent over two decades at the Central Bank of Ireland, and has held roles in the sustainable finance unit at the European Commission (DG-FISMA), as well as in the markets and crisis management areas at the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
He also undertook a fellowship at the Bank for International Settlement’s Financial Stability Institute. Diarmuid teaches comparative central banking as part of Warwick Business School’s Global Master’s.
Deirdre Timmons
Sustainable Finance Lead, Director, ESG Reporting and Assurance at PwC, Sustainability and Finance Professional. Lecturer in Sustainable Finance
Deirdre is a director and sustainable finance leader in the ESG reporting and assurance team at PwC. With an industry background in financial services in a variety of senior roles, Deirdre began integrating ESG risks and opportunities into finance decisions in her work almost 15 years ago and since that time has broadened that work and experience and now advises a wide variety of Irish and internatinonal clients on this agenda.
She is also a lecturer on the Sustainable Finance Leadership programme for the IOB
