ANZ Alumni Career Chat: So, you want to be a regulator?

Join the Australia and New Zealand Caucus, in collaboration with the HKS Office for Career Advancement (OCA), for a careers conversation with two HKS alumni leading regulatory agencies in Australia. If you've ever been interested in a career leading regulatory and legal policy agencies, come join with all your questions. There will be food, thanks to the generous support of OCA. Students from all nationalities and Harvard schools are very welcome!

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Brendan Thomas, a Wiradjuri man, is CEO of AUSTRAC. As CEO, Brendan leads Australia’s financial intelligence unit and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regulator. AUSTRAC’s regulation hardens the financial sector against criminal exploitation, and its intelligence provides crucial information to its national security, domestic, and international law enforcement partners. Prior to AUSTRAC, Brendan had several senior leadership roles with the NSW Government including CEO of Legal Aid NSW and Deputy Secretary at the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, focused on reducing the over-representation of the Indigenous population in the NSW criminal and child protection systems

Luke Woodward is a Commissioner of the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission. The ACCC promotes competition, regulates national infrastructure services, and acts as a consumer protection watchdog. Luke has over 30 years of competition and consumer law enforcement experience in areas like competition and consumer law matters, acquisition and merger transactions, and infrastructure regulation. Prior to his appointment, Luke was a partner in private legal practice, having previously worked for the ACCC and the Australian Government Solicitor.