David Bradbury
The HonourableDavid joined KPMG Australia as a Partner in August 2024 in the firm's Consulting Division. David is passionate about working with highly motivated and talented teams to support governments and businesses to solve complex problems and deliver outcomes that positively impact our community.
Joining KPMG after a decade in Paris as a senior executive at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), David has more than 20 years of experience in economic regulation, the law, government, and executive leadership.
At the OECD David was the Deputy of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, where he played a central role in the OECD's tax work for over a decade. During this time, the OECD delivered the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, established the Inclusive Framework on BEPS, and secured the landmark 2021 agreement among more than 140 countries and jurisdictions which included the global minimum tax on large multinational corporations.
At the OECD, David was involved in the benchmarking of countries' tax and economic policies, and he also contributed to a number of the OECD's major cross-cutting initiatives, including the establishment of the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA).
Prior to joining the OECD, David had been a corporate tax lawyer, a Mayor, a Member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament and a Minister in the Australian Government. As a Minister, David had responsibility for overseeing some of Australia's key economic regulators and held portfolios in areas such as taxation policy, competition policy and consumer affairs, foreign investment policy and corporate governance.