Gary Banks, Chair
(Australia)

Gary Banks is Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Until 2012 he was the Chairman of the Productivity Commission, Australia’s independent research and advisory body on major economic, social and environmental issues affecting the wellbeing of the community. In addition to overseeing the Commission’s activities, Gary has personally headed national inquiries on such topics as National Competition Policy, the National Reform Agenda and the Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia.  He also chaired the Prime Minister’s Regulation Taskforce, which issued its influential report ‘Rethinking Regulation’ in 2006. For many years Gary Banks was responsible for the Office of Regulation Review, a gate keeper for good regulatory practice, and he established its successor body, the Office of Best Practice Regulation. He has degrees in economics from Monash University and the Australian National University, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2007 he was made an officer of the Order of Australia for services to the development of public policy in microeconomic reform and regulation.   

g.banks@anzsog.edu.au

Michael Presley, (Canada)

Michael Presley is the Assistant Secretary of the Regulatory Affairs Sector at the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS). Michael joined TBS as the Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs in 2007.  Prior to joining TBS, Michael Presley was Director General of the Food Value Chain Bureau at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). While at AAFC, he was one of four team leaders in the Department charged with shaping and implementing the Food Safety and Quality elements of the Agriculture Policy Framework and was also a Team Leader on the Department’s Markets & Trade Team. Michael was formerly the Director, Environment Bureau within AAFC, and joined Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in 1992.  Prior to AAFC, Michael worked for Transport Canada in various capacities both in the National Capital Region and in the British Columbia Regional offices.  He started his career with the Public Service Commission. Michael holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Queen's University, and a Masters of Public Administration from Carleton University.  Recently, he graduated from the University of Ottawa Certificate Program in Public Service Leadership and Governance (2007-09) which is designed to equip senior managers to assume Assistant Deputy Minister level leadership responsibility.

Michael.Presley@tbs-sct.gc.ca

Charles-Henri Montin, (France)

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Charles-Henri Montin is a senior regulatory adviser from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of France. In addition to his membership to the RPC Bureau, Charles-Henri is co-chair of Working Group IV on regulatory reform of the MENA-OECD Governance Programme. He is currently seconded by his ministry  to support international technical assistance projects in developing and transition countries.  Previously, he held positions as a regulatory expert at the European Commission (2007-10) and as head of the interministerial unit in charge of regulatory quality for the French administration (2004-07). Prior to that, Charles-Henri had held managerial positions in three international organisations (CERN-Geneva, UN and NATO from 1989 to 2004) and as a diplomat representing his country. An alumnus of the Ecole Nationale d'Administation, he hold degrees in law, political science and languages. Charles-Henri is the editor of a blog and resource centre on regulatory quality directed at government officials and regulators (http://smartregulation.net/).

charles-henri.montin@finances.gouv.fr

Luigi Carbone, (Italy)

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Luigi Carbone has been a member of the Board of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas since February 2011. For many years, Luigi Carbone followed the development of regulatory and administrative simplification policies both domestically in Italy and at the international level. In 2010, he was appointed as Divisional President of the Consiglio di Stato. He was Vice Secretary-General of the Italian Prime Minister’s Office from 2007 to 2011. For a number of Governments terms of office, he received delegated functions for regulatory simplification, he co-ordinated the Unit on the Simplification and Quality of Regulation and also headed the Task Force in support of the Ministry for Regulatory Simplification. Between 1992 and 2010, he served as legal advisor, legislative affairs manager, private secretary to the Italian Prime Minister’s Office, and in particular to the Legal and Legislative Affairs dept. (DAGL), the Civil Service dept., the EU Policies dept. and the Institutional Reforms dept. In addition to being Bureau member of the RPC, Luigi Carbone is a co-chair of the OECD-MENA Group on Regulatory Reform, and member of the European Commission High Level Group on Better Regulation.

Virgilio Andrade Martínez
(Mexico)

Carlo Thomsen, (Norway)

Carlo Thomsen is Specialist Director in the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs, where he has worked for the last 11 years. He is currently working in the Department of ICT Policy and Public Sector Reform, in the field of public governance. Professionally he has been particularly concerned with questions like framework conditions for public organisations and how to organise them, as well as regulatory policy and frameworks for good decision making. He is also engaged in the ministry’s general work on public sector reform.  Mr. Thomsen has a master of Political Science from the University of Oslo, specialising in Public Policy and Administration.

Carlo.Thomsen@fad.dep.no

Roger Bengtsson, (Sweden)

Roger Bengtsson is Head of Section at the Division for Entrepreneurship at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications. He has been involved in the work of the OECD on Regulatory Reform and Better Regulation since Spring 2006. Before the establishment of the Regulatory Policy Committee, he was Swedish delegate at the Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform and at the meetings of the Group on Regulatory Policy. Since 2007 he has been a member of the European Commission’s High Level Group of National Regulatory Experts and Swedish delegate at the meetings of the network of Directors & Experts on Better Regulation. During the Swedish Presidency of the EU in the autumn of 2009, he was Project Leader for the work with Better Regulation. He holds a Master of Laws from Uppsala University and a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Stockholm University, School of Business.

roger.bengtsson@enterprise.ministry.se

Julian Farrel, (United Kingdom)

Julian Farrel is Deputy Director of the Better Regulation Executive, and Head of the EU and International Team, in the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.  He has worked on a range of domestic and EU better regulation issues within the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Business, and the UK Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, since the UK Government’s first administrative burdens exercise in the early 1980s.   He is a member of the European Commission’s High Level Group of National Regulatory Experts and the network of EU Directors and Experts on Better Regulation.  He has a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages (German and French) from Cambridge University.

Alexander Hunt, (United States)

Alexander Hunt is a Branch Chief in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  As Chief of OIRA’s Information Policy Branch, he is responsible for the development and oversight of the U.S. government’s policies and practices relating to open government, privacy, records management, standards, and related information policy issues.  Mr. Hunt also helps to lead the U.S. government’s regulatory cooperation initiatives with Canada, Mexico, and the European Union, and he currently serves as the U.S. delegate to the APEC Economic Committee. Previously, he was involved in OIRA’s oversight of regulatory and information policies of the Departments of Transportation, Homeland Security, and Treasury.  He received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with honors from Occidental College and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he was also an International Fellow.

Alexander_T._Hunt@omb.eop.gov