Representatives
The Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) comprises two representatives – the agency head and another senior representative – from each of the four member agencies. The Chair is the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the RBA provides the CFR Secretariat. Other representatives of CFR agencies attend meetings as appropriate.
The current member representatives of the CFR are:
Jenny Wilkinson was appointed Secretary to the Australian Treasury with effect from 16 June 2025.
Prior to this role, she was Secretary of the Department of Finance from August 2022.
During her career, Ms Wilkinson has held other senior positions in Commonwealth departments and agencies. These have included the Commonwealth Treasury, Parliamentary Budget Office, Department of Industry, Department of Climate Change, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Reserve Bank of Australia. In these roles, she has been responsible for providing advice on a wide range of economic policy issues.
Ms Wilkinson was awarded a Public Service Medal in 2021 for outstanding public service in the development of fiscal policy, particularly for the formulation of the Australian Government’s economic response to COVID-19 and implementation of JobKeeper.
BEc (Hons) (ANU), MPA (Princeton).
Joseph Longo commenced as ASIC Chair on 1 June 2021.
He has more than 38 years' experience in corporate law, financial services, governance and regulation in Australia and overseas.
Most recently, he was a senior adviser at Herbert Smith Freehills, specialising in regulatory matters, enforcement, commercial law and internal legal matters. Earlier in his career, Joseph was a partner at Parker and Parker (now Herbert Smith Freehills).
Joseph was the general counsel for Deutsche Bank in London and Hong Kong for 17 years, advising on a range of regulatory issues, governance, infrastructure and non-financial risk.
Earlier, Joseph was the national director of enforcement at ASIC for five years, responsible for the coordination and direction of all enforcement and litigation activities.
He has experience navigating multi-jurisdictional investigations and enforcement activity across financial services.
He holds a Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Hons) and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Laws from Yale Law School.