Keynote Speaker

Geoff Carmody is currently Director, Geoff Carmody & Associates.  He was the co-founder of Access Economics in 1988 and continues contracting work with that Company. 

Before then, he worked in key policy areas in the Federal Treasury, including Budget, wages and foreign investment.  He represented Australia at the IMF and later at the OECD. 

He has worked on projects ranging from numerous taxation policy submissions to Federal & State Governments, through to National Wage Case advocacy and extensive analysis for Australia’s tourism industry.  He was involved in the development of Fightback! for the Hewson Opposition in the early 1990s, and other policy costings for Federal and State Oppositions before and since, including costing the Labor Opposition’s Policy Platform for the 2001 federal Election.  He has been an advisor to the Business Coalition for Tax Reform since the mid-1990s.   

In 1996 he was Executive Officer for the National Commission of Audit.

From January 2004 to May 2006 he was a Director on the Board of Patrick Corporation.

He was also a Panel Member of COAG’s Energy Reform Implementation Group (ERIG) that investigated practical reform options for Australia’s electricity markets and reported to COAG on this matter in January 2007.

Geoff was appointed as Chair, Sustainable Budget Commission, in South Australia, in June 2009.  This engagement is expected to continue until around mid-July 2010.

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