QCA Board and executive team

Flavio Menezes is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics at the University of Queensland (UQ). Flavio is also a part-time member of the Australian Competition Tribunal and a member of the NDIA’s Pricing Arrangement Reference Group. Professor Menezes was a member of the Expert Panel for the Special Disability Accommodation (NDIS) 2022–2023 price review. He was the president of the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) from 2016 to 2018 and a member of the advisory board of the Federal Government’s 2019–2020 Deregulation Taskforce.

He was Head of the School of Economics at UQ from 2009 to 2015, the chair of the Research Evaluation Committee for Economics and Commerce, Excellence of Research in Australia (ERA) in 2018, and a member of the same committee for ERA 2015. Professor Menezes was an elected member of UQ’s Academic Board and of its Standing Committee from 2018 to 2021. Prior to joining UQ in 2006, he was a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Regulatory Economics at the Australian National University and the foundation director of the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics. He was a Vice-President at Charles Rivers Associates International in Canberra from 2005–2006.

Professor Menezes is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Public Theory and was the co-editor of the Economics Record from 2016 to 2022. He has published extensively on the economics of auctions, competition and regulatory economics, industrial organisation and market design.

His experience includes advising the federal government, the AEMC, the ACCC, IPART and the ACT and Victorian governments on market design issues in regulatory environments. He has also provided economic advice to many private and public organisations on competition and regulatory issues in telecommunications, defence, fisheries, water, gambling, natural resources, electricity markets, dairy, smart cities, banking, aged care, the NDIS, early childhood education and childcare, health and transport.

Madeline is a barrister with 29 years’ experience as a member of the Queensland bar, as junior counsel (1996–2015) and senior counsel (November 2015). In 2000, she was a founding member of Roma Mitchell Chambers in Brisbane.

Madeline has had a broad practice, specialising in the areas of administrative law, and taxation and revenue law. Madeline has been involved in significant judicial review litigation (including mineral royalty disputes, review of decisions under the Environmental Protection Biodiversity Act 1999 (Cth)), and in merits review of a broad range of Queensland state and federal government decisions.

Madeline has served on committees and boards of not for profits, including professional institutions. She served for eight years on the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research before her appointment to the QCA in 2016. In 2024 she was appointed Chair of the Queensland Catholic Education Commission.

Warren is an advisor and company director who has been working with investors, regulators, providers, and users of a wide range of infrastructure services since 2003.

He was a commissioner at the Australian Productivity Commission from 2009 to 2015 and also served as the Australian Competitive Neutrality Commissioner. Warren recently completed an independent review of the National Legal Assistance Partnership for Australia’s nine Attorneys-General and the Harmonisation of the Australian Design Rules (relating to motor vehicle standards) for the Commonwealth Government.

At Airservices Australia, he served on the board for more than five years from 2008, including being the deputy chair for over four years. He was also a member of the Steering Committee for the joint NSW and Commonwealth governments’ Sydney Aviation Strategy and continued to advise the Australian Government on Sydney’s second airport until the creation of the company to build the airport. Warren has also held executive roles in airport companies in Australia and Europe.

Warren has been a director of VicForests, EISS Super, the Western Community Legal Centre, the National Health Co-operative, James Watt College of Higher and Further Education and the Airports Operators Association (United Kingdom), Transgrid and the Sydney Desalination Plant.

Dr Mundy is currently a Senior Advisor to Dexus Infrastructure, a director of the Icon Water, the Access to Justice Technology Network and First Nations Advocates Against Family Violence.

Fiona is the CEO of Way Forward a debt relief charity that provides free support to people to help them manage their debts.

Before joining Way Forward, Fiona was the CEO of Financial Counselling Australia for nearly 15 years.

Fiona has 30 years’ experience in consumer advocacy, including a number of years on the executive of the Consumers Federation of Australia. She first became involved in issues affecting consumers, particularly people on low incomes or in vulnerable circumstances, after volunteering as a financial counsellor at Caxton Legal Centre in Brisbane in 1989.

She has held directorships on Energex Retail, the Insurance Ombudsman Service and the Financial Ombudsman Service and was previously chair of ASIC’s Consumer Advisory Panel.

Fiona is currently a member of ASIC’s Consultative Panel.

She was a recipient of an Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday honours for significant service to the community through social welfare and financial counselling roles.

Charles has broad experience in policy analysis and economic regulation. He commenced his career at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, focusing on energy market analysis and assessing the impacts of trade, investment and climate change policies.

Since 2001, he has worked in the area of energy market regulation in roles at the QCA, Ergon Energy and the Australian Energy Regulator.

Charles joined the QCA in 2010.

William’s diverse experience encompasses roles at Queensland Treasury, Queensland Treasury Corporation and Deloitte Economics.

As Director of Peer Review, his role is to provide accuracy of material and assurance of quality for the Queensland Competition Authority. He has delivered economic regulation, analysis and policy development in both the public and private sector. In particular, William has worked extensively in the Queensland water industry.

William joined the QCA in 2010.

George has nearly 20 years’ experience in economic regulation.

As Director of Business Performance his role involves the monitoring and implementation of regulation across all firms regulated by the QCA.  Prior to this role, George was extensively involved in the economic oversight of water and local government sectors, as well as rail access regulation in the QCA.

George started his career with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics before moving to Queensland and working on sugar industry policy, water sector policy and Queensland’s first review of irrigation water price paths.

George joined the QCA in 2000.

Sharon brings with her extensive experience in senior and executive roles in the tourism, banking, and local government industries.

As Director of Corporate Services, her role is diverse in managing the provision of a range of corporate services, including governance, financial management, information technology, human resources and corporate administration.

Sharon’s previous roles included business strategy, risk management, corporate and operational planning, cultural change and leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver major projects.

Sharon joined the QCA in October 2020.