Philip Davies is Head of Competition and Regulation at Sydney Water and Chairman, founding board member of the Regulatory Policy Institute of Australia and New Zealand, and a Council member of the Regulatory Policy Institute UK.  Philip has spent twenty-five years working on regulation and competition matters for regulators and regulated companies in the energy, water and aviation sectors in the UK and Australia. Philip was Director of Regulation at Centrica, the largest energy supplier in the UK and  a Director at Enron Europe.  He has also spent time as a regulator, both at the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority and as a Director at Ofgem, the GB energy regulator.  Philip has an MBA from London Business School, a Master’s degree in economics from the College of Europe in Belgium.

George Yarrow is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford University and founding Director of the Regulatory Policy Institute (1991). After graduating in economics and maths at Cambridge University he spent most of his academic career at Oxford, but has also had affiliations with: the Universities of Warwick, Newcastle and London in the UK;  Harvard and the University of California (San Diego) in the US; and Warsaw and Potsdam in Europe. His research interests are eclectic, but have centred on privatization, regulation and competition. Regulatory interests have included environmental issues, financial regulation, healthcare & social care, and the regulation of legal services, as well as network sectors such as energy, communications, transport, and water. He has advised and served government departments and regulatory agencies around the world, including advising Ministers on the development of the UK Communications Act 2003 and, in energy, acting first as a long-time advisor to Ofgem and later as a Member of the UK Gas and Electricity Markets Authority.

Dr Rob Nicholls is an associate professor in business law at the UNSW Business School and the director of the UNSW Business School Cybersecurity and Data Governance Research Network. He is also a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on competition law, the regulation of networked industries and the financial services sector with an emphasis on the effects of technology in that space. Rob has had a thirty-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance. His first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and he was awarded his PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney. Before moving to academia, he worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and spent twelve years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin, including as a partner. Rob is an accredited mediator and a member of the NBN arbitration pool.

Euan Morton has over twenty-five years’ experience in resource economics, infrastructure and corporate finance. Prior to forming Synergies Economic Consulting Pty Ltd in 2004, he was a Principal of NECG, a Director of the Queensland Competition Authority and Principal Advisor, Regulation at Queensland Electricity Reform Unit where he has been an Independent Expert under the National Electricity Rules continuously since 2001. In 2005, Euan was appointed to an Expert Panel by the Ministerial Council on Energy to review regulatory arrangements associated with the ongoing reforms to energy markets. He is also an Independent Expert under the National Electricity Rules and a member of the Trade Practices Committee of the Law Council of Australia. He served on the Great Barrier Reef Task Force and was a key member of the Expert Panel appointed to review cost estimates of improving water quality in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. He is a director of aeiou (a charity dedicated to delivering early intervention therapy for autistic children).

Luke Woodward is a Senior Partner of Gilbert + Tobin and head of the firms Competition and Regulation practice group.  Prior to joining Gilbert + Tobin in 2000, Luke held senior roles in the ACCC as head of the Mergers Branch, General Counsel and head of the Compliance (enforcement) Division.  He has bachelor degrees in Economics and Law (with honours) from the University of Sydney and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.  He was a long standing member from 2013-2020 of the NSW Advisory Council of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), and is a founding board member of the Regulatory Policy Institute Australia and New Zealand, the Convener of the Sir James Wolfensohn Public Service Scholarship, and a member of each of the Law Council of Australia, Competition and Consumer Law Committee, the International Bar Association Antitrust Committee and the American Bar Association Antitrust Committee. 

Cristina Cifuentes has over 35 years of experience in the private and public sector.  She was, until mid-2020, a Commissioner of the ACCC, an Associate Member of the Australian Communications Media Authority and Australia’s delegate to the OECD’s Network of Economic Regulators. Until December 2019 she was also a Board Member of the Australian Energy Regulator. Cristina has had extensive experience in economic regulation in particular in communications, energy and infrastructure, and financial markets.  She has degrees in law and economics. She has previously held directorships with the NSW Treasury Corporation, Hunter Water Corporation and First State Super Trustee Corporation, among others, and was a member of the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal for ten years.

Rosemary Sinclair is CEO of auDA, the administrator and self-regulatory policy body for the .au country code Top Level Domain.  Rosemary has many years of senior large-scale operations, governance, strategy and stakeholder experience in business and government across the communications, media and education and energy sectors. She was a non-executive director of auDA some years ago. Rosemary received the Order of Australia Award in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.  Rosemary is a Director of CPA Australia and a recent past Member (part-time) of the Australian Communications and Media Authority.  Rosemary has degrees in Arts, Law and Business and a Master of Commerce degree from UNSW. Rosemary is a qualified FCPA and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dr Ron Ben David joined the Monash Business School (Faculty of Business and Economics) in partnership with the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, as a Professorial Fellow in March 2020. This followed ten years as the full-time chair of Victoria’s economic regulator, the Essential Services Commission. His earlier career involved senior positions in the Department of Premier and Cabinet (Vic) and Treasury and Finance (Vic). In 2007-08, he led the secretariat for the national Garnuat Climate Change Review. Ron is known as a provocative thinker with a deep commitment to reforms that deliver fairer outcomes for consumers. He has written and presented on a wide range of topics. He holds a B.Sc (Optometry), B.Comm (Hons), PhD (economics) and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.