Dennis McGowan

Dennis J. McGowan, CPA, is the vice president, Professional Practice at the Center for Audit Quality. In this role, he leads regulatory and policy strategies that foster high-quality performance by public company auditors.

His duties include leading a team of audit executives to advance technical and policy-oriented projects to identify, develop, and seek consensus on issues affecting the public company auditing profession. This includes engaging with senior leaders across the financial reporting ecosystem, drafting comment letter responses to regulators, developing thought leadership publications and responding to technical inquiries