Gary Banks

Gary Banks is Dean and Chief Executive Officer of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). He was Chairman of the Australian Productivity Commission from its inception in 1998 until 2012. He is a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University. Professor Banks currently chairs the Regulatory Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Melbourne Institute and the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council. He was previously a Senior Economist with the GATT Secretariat in Geneva, Visiting Fellow at the Trade Policy Research Centre in London, Projects Director with the Centre for International Economics in Canberra and has been a consultant to the World Bank and World Trade Organisation. He chaired the Regulation Taskforce in 2006 and the Infrastructure Stream at the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit.