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William Coad - Audit Quality Review Board (AQRB)

William (Bill) Coad

A.M, BEc FCPA
DIRECTOR

Mr Coad is an Accountant specialising in regulatory and legal matters within the financial sector. He has held a number of senior posts.

His former appointments include:

  • New South Wales Regional Commissioner for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission between 1996 and 1999
  • Inaugural Director, establishing then heading Australia’s anti-money laundering agency, Austrac between 1989 and 1996
  • Commissioner, then Deputy Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now called Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission or ACCC)

Mr Coad has more recently undertaken consultancies for government and for the financial sector on risk management, financial and law enforcement matters.

Appointed a Director on 20 December 2005.