Deputy Governor (Central Banking), succeeding Stefan Gerlach. She was the first woman to be appointed to one of the Deputy Governor roles. In 2018, she was shortlisted as one of two contenders nominated by MEPs to head the euro zone's bank supervisory operation, the Single Supervisory Mechanism, eventually losing out to Andrea Enria. On the departure of Philip R. Lane, she was appointed Acting Governor from June to August 2019, the first woman to lead the Central Bank, albeit on an temporary basis. According to media reporting, Donnery was one of five shortlisted candidates for the post of Governor, with Gabriel Makhlouf ultimately appointed and taking up the role from 1 September 2019. In 2020, she was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin and was named as UCD Alumni Award winner for the social sciences. Holder of a diploma from the Institute of Directors, Donnery was, in 2019, registered by that body as a Chartered Director. It 2022 it was announced that Donnery had been appointed Deputy Governor (Financial Regulation), responsible for leading the supervision of credit institutions, and the insurance sector, as well as policy and risk, and the prudential analytics and inspections directorates, with a team over 600. In this role she would also be a member of the ECB Supervisory Board, the body responsible for the ECB's supervisory tasks. References Living people 1972 births Alumni of University College Dublin 21st-century Irish economists International economists Macroeconomists Irish women economists