Rod Stowe (Chair)
Rod Stowe has over 40 years experience in the public sector, and is one of NSW’s longest-serving public servants.
He served as the NSW Fair Trading Commissioner for six years until his retirement in 2017. He received the Public Service Medal for services to consumer protection in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, and the CHOICE Consumer Champion Award in 2017. He is currently Chair of the Consumer Advocacy Trust Board, a member of the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) Board, Community Director, Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW (EWON) and serves on the Renewable Energy Sector Board.
Elissa Freeman
Elissa is an experienced consumer advocate, having represented the interests of consumers in the financial services, telecommunications, energy and water industries.
She is a Director of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), founder and coordinator of the Consumers’ Federation of Australia (CFA) Mentoring Program, Chair of the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) Customer Consultative Group and a member of the AER’s Consumer Challenge Panel. Elissa was previously a Director of the Financial Adviser Standards & Ethics Authority (FASEA), Director of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and chair of the Financial Rights Legal Centre.
Kevin Davis (AM)
Kevin Davis is an Emeritus Professor of Finance at the University of Melbourne. He is a widely published academic and op-ed contributor and his research interests include corporate taxation, superannuation reform and the global financial crisis.
Kevin is an expert in financial sector regulation and was a member of the Murray inquiry into the Australian Financial System in 2013. He has been a member of the Australian Competition Tribunal since 2011 and was Research Director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies at Monash University from 2005 to 2018.
Delia Rickard
Delia Rickard has extensive public service experience with Australia’s financial regulators.
She was Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) from 2012 until 2023 where she served on committees and boards dealing with consumer data rights, digital platforms, financial services, enforcement, energy, communications, exemptions, and corporate governance.
She also held various senior executive roles at the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) where she was involved in work on dispute resolution, banking, insurance, the introduction of Super Choice and financial capability. She also led the creation of www.moneysmart.gov.au.
Delia has been the recipient of many awards in recognition of her services to consumer protection, including the Australian Public Service medal, the SOCAP Lifetime Achievement award and the Inaugural Australian Law Council’s Australian Consumer Rights Award.
Shane Tregillis
Shane has over 30 years of experience in senior executive roles in capital markets regulation, market conduct supervision and dispute resolution in both Australia and Singapore. Shane was Chief Ombudsman of the Financial Ombudsman Service Australia (FOS) from September 2011 to June 2018. Prior to taking up this role, he was a Commissioner at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) from May 2010 to August 2011.
Shane was at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) from 2001 to 2010. He was the Deputy Managing Director (Market Conduct) at MAS from March 2005, where he was responsible for capital market and business conduct regulation in Singapore. He also chaired Singapore’s National Financial Education Steering Committee. He is currently a program director of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision’s annual Singapore regional securities regulator program.
Craig Young
Craig has over 20 years executive leadership experience in strategy, research and digital transformation, stakeholder engagement and organisational change.
He is passionate about using evidence-based decision-making and collaborative partnerships to produce more citizen and consumer-centric outcomes and progressive social change.
Craig is currently MD of Big Village, a marketing, media services and consulting business specialising in strategic research, data management, digital consulting and digital advertising.
He has been a Non Executive Director for nine years including three as Chair of ADIA (Australia’s market and social research industry association). He is on the Board of Redfern Legal Centre, and on the Advisory Board to the ACT’s Gambling & Racing Commission.