Scott Rankin (Past Speaker)

Scott Rankin is Deputy Head of the Shareholding and Financial Advisory Division in the Irish Department of Finance. In 2009, he was the first person recruited from the private sector to assist the Irish Government with the financial crisis and played a central role in restructuring and rebuilding the country’s banking system. He was involved in all of the State’s banking recapitalisations, helped negotiate Ireland’s EC/IMF bailout and has extensive experience of providing financial, risk and policy advice to Government. His team comprises a diverse group of civil servants and private sector professionals and he has led the planning and execution of numerous projects and transactions including the flotation of AIB which was the second largest IPO in the world in 2017. Prior to joining the Department, he worked at Davy for 15 years where he was Head of Financials Research and an award winning equity analyst and started his career in Leicester University as an economist. Scott has a Bcomm and M.Econ.Sc from UCD and is a Certified Bank Director.