PEOPLE

Sitesh Bhojani - Specialist Adviser

Former Commissioner with the ACCC and the former Chair of the ACCC's Enforcement Committee. He is the former Chair of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network

• CEO - UK Energy Watch
• Co-chair — International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition
• President — International Society of Consumer and Competition Officials

Formerly:

• Deputy Chair — Australian Consumer and Competition Commission
• Chair — OECD Consumer Policy Committee
• Senior Executive — Australian Overseas Telecommunications Commission
• Manager — Australian Consumers’ Association
• Member — Executive Committee of the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations
• Member — Council of Consumers’ International

Qualifications: BCom LLB

John Braithwaite — Director

• Professor — Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
• Chair — Regulatory Institutions Network

Formerly:

• Chair and CEO — Australian Federation of Consumer Organizations
• Member — Economic Planning Advisory Council
• Associate Commissioner — Trade Practices Commission
• Consultant to OECD and many Australian government departments
• Council Member — Australian Consumers' Association

Qualifications: BA(Hons), PhD (Queensland University)

Robin M G Brown — Director, Secretary-General

• Consultant in Consumer Affairs
• Council Member — Australian Consumers’ Association
• Committee Member — International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition
• Member — Code Authority of the Australian Direct Marketing Association

Formerly:

• Chair and CEO — Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations
• Associate Board Member — Australian Telecommunications Authority (AUSTEL)
• Member — Australian Life Insurance Industry Complaints Tribunal
• Executive Officer (policy development and public affairs) — Australian Agency for International Development
• Consumer representative on principal Australian government food and drug regulatory bodies

Qualifications: BA, M Public Policy (ANU)

Bill Dee — Member

• Consultant in compliance, dispute management and consumer affairs
• President — Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business (Australia)
• Member — Standards Australia International Committee on business governance standards and convenor of that committee’s working group drafting standards on fraud and corruption control, internal whistleblowing systems, organisational codes of conduct and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Formerly:

• Executive at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) responsible for the development of legal compliance programs, codes of conduct and other self-regulation initiatives.
• Foundation President of the Association of Compliance Professionals of Australia (now the Australian Compliance Institute)

Qualifications: BA (ANU) LLB (Adelaide University)

Howard Hollow — Executive Director — Projects

Formerly:

• Senior Officer — Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Project Manager — Consumer Assistance Facilitation Project
• Philippines

Imelda Maher — Director

• Director, Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy, RegNet, ANU
• Senior Lecturer in EU Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

Formerly:

• Visiting Fellow, Europa Kolleg, Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
• Adjunct Faculty, Lund University, Sweden; University of Notre Dame (US) in London,
• Presented seminars on competition and EC law in eastern and central Europe under the auspices of the British Council, The British Association for Central and Eastern Europe; the European Institute of Public Administration; and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Qualifications: BCL (University College, Dublin) LLM (Temple University)

John Söderbaum — Member

• Consultant ACIL Tasman, specialising in:
• energy markets (reform, competition, regulation, analysis, forecasting);
• environmental implications of energy use (including greenhouse); and
• private — public sector relations.

Formerly:

• International Energy Agency, OECD
• Senior policy analyst Australian government

Qualifications: BSc(Hons) (University of Western Australia) PhD (ANU

Hank Spier — Chair of Directors

• Consultant in competition and consumer policy, law and regulation
• Retained consultant to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
• Member of the Australian Law Reform Commission
• Member — Trade Practices Committee of the Law Council of Australia
• Consultant to various developing economies on economic regulatory matters

Formerly:

• CEO Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
• Australian representative at OECD and APEC competition committees

Qualifications: BA, LLB (ANU)

John T D Wood — Director, Treasurer

• Consultant in Consumer Affairs, Complaint Handling and Ombudsman Institutions
• Council Member — Australian Consumers’ Association
• Chair — Code Authority of the Australian Direct Marketing Association
• Chair — Consumer Advisory Panel, Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Formerly:

• Deputy National Ombudsman in Australia
• Director — Australian Federal Bureau of Consumer Affairs
• President — Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business (Australia)
• Member — Editorial Board of the International Journal of Consumer Policy