The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that Anna Brakey and Peter Crone will join the agency as commissioners. Brakey and Crone have both been appointed for 5-year terms.
Brakey brings to the ACCC experience in infrastructure regulation. She joins the ACCC from Frontier Economics, after spending over 20 years at the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, including as COO and then as a Tribunal Member. She has worked at various other public agencies including the Productivity Commission and the NSW Department of Transport.
Crone has over 30 years’ experience in economic policy and commercial strategy and has held varied and senior positions in the private and public sectors. He has served as an economic advisor to state and federal governments, including as Senior Economic Advisor to Australia’s Prime Minister from 1997 to 2006, and as chief economist at the Business Council of Australia, EY and Coles Group.
Crone has been a commercial adviser to a number of superannuation funds on infrastructure investments, and a member of the ASX Corporate Governance Council. He also spent seven years at Commonwealth Treasury as a policy adviser and research economist.
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