Chris Jordan AO, Commissioner of Taxation, Australian Taxation Office, will address the National Press Club of Australia on "Transformation, trust, and tax: The Commissioner’s story".
Chris Jordan AO was appointed as the 12th Commissioner of Taxation and Registrar of the Australian Business Register on 1 January 2013. Chris was also appointed as Registrar of the Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets on 29 November 2022.
He started his professional career with the firm Arthur Andersen in 1979, spending a few years as a senior lecturer in taxation at Sydney’s University of Technology and then working at KPMG for many years. From 1995 to 2000, he was Partner in Charge of the NSW Tax and Legal Division of KPMG, and from 2001 to 2012 was the NSW Chairman of Partners for KPMG.
In 2005, he was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for the provision of high-level advice to government in relation to the development and implementation of taxation legislation and reform of Australia’s taxation system.
Chris has been a member, Deputy Chair, Chair and an ex-officio member of the Board of Taxation since its inception in 2000.He also served as Chair of the Business Tax Working Group from 2011 to 2012 and was Chair of the New Tax System Advisory Board from 1999 to 2001. He was a member of the Working Group that consulted with the mining industry about the resource rent tax in 2011–12.
Chris has a Master of Laws from Sydney University and Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Chartered Tax Adviser with The Tax Institute.
In 2022, Chris received an Honorary Doctorate in Business from UNSW, in recognition of his service to the community and his role as a leader and innovator in the Australian Public Service.
Chris has previously held the role of Chair of the Committee for Sydney, and board memberships of the Bell Shakespeare theatre company and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation. Chris is a proud member of the National Press Club.
