Louise Sylvan - Commissioner
Louise Sylvan
Commissioner
Louise Sylvan was appointed a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission on 1 August 2008. Since 2003 she had been Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, appointed as the member with expertise in consumer affairs.
Louise was formerly the Chief Executive of the Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) and President of Consumers International.
An active member and worker in consumer protection, nationally and internationally, for over 15 years, Louise is well known for her work in enhancing consumer rights in a range of areas such as health, food safety issues, financial services, as well as in competition and consumer policy.
Louise has served internationally on the OECD Consumer Policy Committee and nationally on the federal government's Expert Group in Electronic Commerce and the Australian Statistics Advisory Council to the ABS. She is Deputy President of the Council of the Medical Foundation of the University of Sydney, and on the Board of the Diplomacy Training Program established by The Hon Jose Ramos Horta. Prior memberships included six years on the Australian Prime Minister's Economic Planning Advisory Council and the Self-Regulation Task Force in 1999–2000.
Louise has a BA and MPA from universities in her original homeland of Canada and immigrated to Australia in 1983.
She is currently working on:
- Annual Review of Regulatory Burdens on Business - Business and Consumer Services
- Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments
Louise's previous projects were: