David joined KPMG Australia as a Partner in August 2024 in the firm’s Consulting Division. David is passionate about working with highly motivated and talented teams to support governments and businesses to solve complex problems and deliver outcomes that positively impact our community.
Joining KPMG after a decade in Paris as a senior executive at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), David has more than 20 years of experience in tax and economic policy, regulation, the law, government, and executive leadership.
At the OECD David was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration where he played a central role in the OECD’s tax work for over a decade. During this time, the OECD delivered the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, established the Inclusive Framework on BEPS, and secured the landmark international tax agreement among more than 140 countries and jurisdictions, which included agreement on the global minimum tax on large multinational corporations.
Prior to joining the OECD, David had been a corporate tax lawyer, a Mayor, a Member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament and a Minister in the Australian Government. As a Minister, David had responsibility for overseeing some of Australia’s key economic regulators and held portfolios in areas such as taxation policy, competition policy and consumer affairs, foreign investment policy and corporate governance. David also served as a member of the Cabinet’s Expenditure Review Committee, which was responsible for all key tax and spending decisions, including the preparation of the Commonwealth Budget.
David is an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy. He is also the Chair of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Advisory Committee and is a member of the e61 Institute Policy Advisory Committee.
