Mr Gary Banks AO
Gary Banks has been Chairman of the Productivity Commission since its inception in 1998.
In addition to overseeing the Commission’s activities, he has personally headed national inquiries on such wide-ranging reform topics as National Competition Policy, the National Reform Agenda and the Economic Implications of an Ageing Population, as well as other key policy issues in the areas of industry assistance, infrastructure, government services and regulation.
Gary Banks chairs the Review of Government Services under COAG. He also chaired the Australian Government’s Regulation Taskforce in 2006 and was a member of its Review of Higher Education. Before joining the Commission, Gary worked at the Centre for International Economics, Canberra, and has been a consultant to the OECD and World Bank.
In earlier years, he was a Senior Economist with the GATT Secretariat in Geneva, and Visiting Fellow at the Trade Policy Research Centre, London.
He was born in Melbourne, and holds degrees in economics from Monash University and the Australian National University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Melbourne Institute, and a Fellow of the Acadamy of Social Sciences of Australia.
In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to the development of public policy in microeconomic reform and regulation.
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