Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Kooyong, Victoria, 2010. Re-elected 2013 and 2016.

Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister from 18.9.2013 to 23.12.2014.
• Assistant Treasurer from 23.12.2014 to 21.9.2015.
• Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia from 21.9.2015 to 19.7.2016.
• Cabinet Minister from 21.9.2015.
• Minister for the Environment and Energy from 19.7.2016 to 28.8.2018.
• Treasurer from 28.8.2018.

Committee service

• Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit from 25.10.2010 to 5.8.2013.
• Joint Select: Gambling Reform from 21.10.2010 to 24.6.2013.

Parliamentary party positions

• Deputy Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party from 24.8.2018.

Party positions

• Member, Liberal Party from 1999

Personal

• Born 17.7.1971, Melbourne, Australia
• Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• B.Ec (Hons)(Monash)
• LL.B (Hons)(Monash)
• M.Phil (Oxford)
• M.PA (Harvard)
• Commonwealth Scholar, UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
• Articled Clerk, Mallesons Stephen Jacques 1996-99 (interrupted by overseas study at Oxford)
• Assistant Adviser to the Attorney-General, the Hon. DR Williams, AM, QC 1999
• Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. AJG Downer, MP 1999-2001
• Senior adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. AJG Downer, MP 1999-2001
• Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister, the Hon. JW Howard, MP 2003-04
• Director, Deutsche Bank AG 2005-09
• Consultant, Deutsche Bank AG 2010

Electorate

• Description: Inner Metropolitan
• Location: eastern Melbourne; it includes the inner eastern suburbs of Balwyn, Balwyn North, Camberwell, Canterbury, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Kew, Kew East and parts of Surrey Hills.
• Area: 52 Sq km
• Electors enrolled: 100140 (at 2.7.2016)
• Industries: predominantly residential with no major industries.
• Electorate: Kooyong includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Kew, and parts of Box Hill, Burwood and Hawthorn.