The ASIC Consultative Panel was established in 2020, replacing the former External Advisory Panel.
The Panel enables ASIC to consult on proposed regulatory changes; provides intelligence on the external environment – including market conditions, and provides input into ASIC’s strategic planning. Panel members are senior representatives from the academic, consumer, industry, legal and regulatory sectors and are appointed in their personal capacity.
The current members are:
- Alistair Muir (Managing Director, Vanteum and Director: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Helia)
- Anne Anderson (Board Investment Committee Member, REST; Independent Director, BT and Immutep Limited)
- Catherine Walter AM (Non-Executive Director: AFIC, Export Finance Australia, and Barristers Chambers Limited)
- Catherine Wolthuizen (Ombudsman and Chief Executive, Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria. Formerly of Financial Ombudsman Service UK and Australia)
- Debby Blakey (CEO, Hesta)
- Dimity Kingsford Smith (Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW)
- Emma Herd (Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY Australia)
- Fiona Guthrie AM (CEO, Financial Counselling Australia)
- Geoff Warren (Associate Professor [applied investment research], ANU)
- Ian Ramsay AO (Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Melbourne Law School)
- John Laker AO (Chair, ING and Former Chair, APRA)
- Karyn Sobels (Former Director: Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
- Maria Milosavljevic (Chief Information Security Officer, ANZ)
- Michael Dwyer AM (Chair, TCorp - NSW Government)
- Nicholas Davis (Industry Professor [Emerging Technology] and Co-director, Human Technology Institute, UTS)
- Peter Warne (Chair: IPH Limited, Argo Global Infrastructure Limited, Argo Investments Limited and Non-Executive Director: UniSuper, Virgin Airlines Australia Pty Limited and Allens)
- Pippa Downes (Investment Committee, AustralianSuper)
- Raphael Arndt (CEO, Future Fund)
- Robynne Quiggin (Associate Dean [Indigenous Leadership and Engagement], UTS)
- Ross Buckley (Scientia Professor [Private and Commercial Law] UNSW and Member RBA Payment Systems Board)
- Stephanie Tonkin (CEO, Consumer Action Law Centre)
- Susan Thorp (Professor of Finance, University of Sydney)
- Xavier O'Halloran (CEO and Founding Director, Super Consumers Australia)