Advisory panel members

A high level Advisory Panel assists the Board in carrying out its activities, including by contributing to the Board’s real time policy advice to the Treasurer, advising on the quality and effectiveness of tax legislation and recommending improvements to support the general integrity and functioning of the tax system.

The Panel draws together some of Australia’s leading taxation professionals who have agreed to voluntarily contribute their knowledge and expertise in assisting the Board with its work. Panel members are appointed on the basis of their individual capabilities and expertise, not as representatives of particular interests.

The Panel provides an important additional source of advice to that provided by the business, professional and other community representative organisations with which the Board has developed close working relations.

Membership of the Advisory Panel will change from time to time and will be reviewed periodically by the Board. The current members are listed below.

Members list

Panel Member Position Organisation
Mr Michael Barbour General Manager, Group Tax Westpac
Mr Paul Balkus Partner Ernst & Young
Mr Steve Baxter Director Mazars
Mr Patrick Broughan Deputy Chair Australian Standfirst Board
Mr Michael Carruthers Tax Director Knowledge Shop
Mr Michael Croker Tax Leader - Australia CAANZ
Mr Jason de Boer Tax Partner BDO
Mr Philip Diviny Partner Madgwicks Lawyers
Mr Michael Fenner Taxation Manager Chevron
Mr Mark Ferrier Executive Director Macquarie Group
Mr Michael Flynn QC Barrister  
Mr Geofrey Fooks General Manager, Group Taxation Wesfarmers
Mr Steve Ford Partner PwC
Dr Brett Freudenberg Professor – Taxation Griffith University
Mr Kevin Griffiths Partner Ernst & Young
Mr Tony Greco General Manager Institute of Public Accountants
Mr Matt Hayes Director – Tax KPMG
Mr Steve Healey Partner RSM Australia
Mr Paul Hooper Group Head of Tax and Special Projects Lend Lease
Mr Nick Houseman Partner PwC
Mr Peter Janetzki Tax Partner Ernst & Young
Ms Jasmine Leonard General Manager – Global Tax Advisory Rio Tinto
Mr Adam Levin Senior Consultant Jackson McDonald Lawyers
Ms Alia Lum Partner KPMG
Mr James Macky Partner, Corporate Tax KPMG
Mr Mark Molesworth Partner, Tax BDO
Ms Katrina Parkyn Partner, Tax King & Wood Mallesons
Mr Michael Perez Partner King & Wood Mallesons
Professor Dale Pinto Professor of Taxation Law Curtin Law School, Curtin University
Mr Anthony Portas General Manager Taxation, Asia Pacific Rio Tinto
Mr Tony Principe Associate Director – Tax ShineWing Australian
Mr Brian Purdy Head of Tax South32
Mr John Rawson Partner, Tax Deloitte
Ms Premila Roe Global Head of Tax BHP Billiton
Mr Hayden Scott Tax Controversy Leader PwC
Ms Shannon Smit Director Transfer Pricing Solutions Asia
Mr Steve Southon Chief Tax Officer NAB
Professor Miranda Stewart Professor of Law University of Melbourne Law School
Mr Paul Suppree Assistant Director Corporate Tax Association
Mr Reynah Tang AM Member Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Mr Vic Timos Group Tax Manager Incitec Pivot
Ms Coralie Trotter Vice President Tax, Asia Pacific Shell Australia
Professor Richard Vann Challis Chair of Law University of Sydney
Mr Grant Wardell-Johnson Lead Tax Partner,
KPMG Economics & Tax Centre
KPMG
Mr Steve Westaway Partner, Director & Company Secretary Grant Thornton
Ms Sue Williamson Partner Holding Redlich
Mr Ken Woo Partner PwC