Biography
Michael Buckley is Chairman of KKR Alternative Investment Management, KKR Credit Advisers (Ireland) and KKR Capital Markets (Ireland). He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Blacksheep Fund Management . He serves as Senior Adviser to a number of Irish-owned companies.
Michael was Senior Independent Director and subsequently Chairman of DCC Group (a FTSE 100 Company) from 2005 to 2014. He was a non-executive director of UK Asset Resolution from 2010 to 2017 and has served as an independent non-executive director of stock exchange listed companies in the USA, UK, Singapore and Poland. From 2001 to 2005, Michael was Group Chief Executive of AIB Group from 2001-2005 and from 1986 to 1991 was Managing Director of NCB Group. Prior to that he was a senior civil servant in Ireland and the EU.
In the public service arena he was a founding member of the Taoiseach’s (Irish Prime Minister) Clearing House Committee, which played a central role in developing the IFSC. He was Chairman of the Review Group on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector, and served on the Board of Enterprise Ireland.
Michael was Adjunct Professor at UCC’s School of Economics from 2008 to 2017. He has a First Class Honours MA from the National University of Ireland and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Limerick in 2017. His professional qualifications include CCMI, MSI and FIB.
Michael is a Founding Chair of the Irish branch of the 30 Per Cent Club (dedicated to improving the gender balance in Boards and senior management teams).
