Rod Sims

Rod Sims is the current Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission effective August 2011. He is also the Chairman of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales. He has previously worked as a development economist in Papua New Guinea as well as for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Sims was also formerly the Deputy Secretary of The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Chief Economics Adviser to former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Sims has previously held roles with the InfraCo Asia Development (IAD) as a founding Non-Executive Director and the Chairman a position in held from May 2010 until June 2011 when he resigned to take up the chairmanship of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Sims has also held a directorship at Port Jackson Partners Limited.