Skilled providers agency PwC has appointed Perth-based associate Amy Lomas as its new chief economist for Australia, with Lomas notably bringing power transition experience to her new function.
Lomas joined the Huge 4 agency as a senior supervisor in 2018 following greater than a decade and a half within the Western Australian public sector, and was admitted to the agency’s infrastructure partnership on the finish of 2021.
She replaces former chief economist Amy Auster, who departed together with her colleagues to Scyne Advisory after lower than a 12 months within the function, whereas her long-serving predecessor Jeremy Thorpe additionally not too long ago left PwC to take up a director function Sapere.
“With greater than 20 years’ expertise throughout the private and non-private sector, Amy has performed a essential function in analysing and driving main initiatives, largely throughout the power and sources sector,” the agency said. “She’s going to now convey this wealth of information to her new function, spearheading PwC’s financial evaluation of matters which impression our folks, shoppers and communities.”
Nearly all of her two-decade profession has been spent in varied roles within the Western Australian Division of Treasury, together with main the federal government’s enter on the design of a nationwide emissions buying and selling scheme, whereas previous to becoming a member of PwC she served as coverage government director on the former WA state growth division and as chief-of-staff to the planning & transport minister.
Upon her appointment to what’s usually one of many highest-profile positions on the agency, Lomas stated her precedence could be to interrupt down and make sense of the numerous financial disruptions impacting companies throughout Australia, and that she goals to concentrate on the “so what” for PwC shoppers and workers “by reducing by the noise and simplifying the complicated world of economics.”
“Figuring out how and the place financial change will impression – and profit – enterprise outcomes can be essential,” Lomas stated. “I’ve seen this all through my profession to this point, notably when engaged on coverage growth and contemplating the function of regulation, and I’m trying ahead to working with our shoppers and the broader group to assume in a different way about our most vital challenges.”