Mr Mike Taylor AO

Secretary, Department of Transport and Regional Services

Mike Taylor is currently Secretary, Department of Transport and Regional Services (appointed October, 2004). Prior to his current appointment Mike had had more than a decade of extensive experience at chief executive level, leading and managing Commonwealth and Victorian State Government Departments.

Mike has had a broad range experience on committees, boards and statutory authorities, including more recently the:

• Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal;
• Aviation Policy Group;
• Murray Darling Basin Commission;
• Australia, Trade Policy Advisory Council;
• Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); and
• The Crawford Fund.

Mike is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Administration, and the Institute of Public Administration of Australia, and also currently Chair of the Commonwealth/State Standing Committee on Transport, and Chair of the Commonwealth/State Standing Committee on Regional Development.

Mike was recently appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia,
for services to industry policy development at the Federal level and also in Victoria,
particularly in the area of agriculture, and through contributions to transport, water, food and safety standards; and also for services to the management of natural resources.

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