Allan Asher

Allan Asher is a long-time consumer advocate whose career spans four decades of Australian and international regulatory reform. He served as Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (1995–2001) and was a senior executive of the Australian Consumers’ Association (Choice) before spending five years as a founding board member of the UK Office of Fair Trading, helping shape the Enterprise Act 2002’s market studies and super-complaint powers. He later served as Commonwealth Ombudsman and Chief Executive of EnergyWatch UK. Allan now chairs Fairer Future, a coalition working to strengthen Australia’s democratic and integrity institutions.