Allan Fels

Professor Allan Herbert Miller Fels AO is an Australian economist, lawyer and public servant. He was most widely known in his role as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from its inception in 1995 untilJune 2003. Upon his retirement from the ACCC he became foundation Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government until January 2014 when he retired. He is also currently an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a consultant to law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler. In addition, Fels is the heading the Victorian Taxi Industry Inquiry and, as part of that, has been appointed as chairperson of the Taxi Services Commission.

Fels was born and raised in Perth. He was educated by the Jesuits at St Louis School before commencing a LawEconomics degree at the University of Western Australia, where he was Guild President and resident at St Thomas More College, a residential college at the University. He was involved in the Liberal Party at university before heading to Duke University in the United States to undertake his Ph.D.

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