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Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP

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Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP

Treasurer of Australia
Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP

Josh Frydenberg was elected to the Australian Parliament in 2010 as the Member for Kooyong. He is the seventh person since Federation to hold this seat. In August 2018, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. He was appointed Treasurer of Australia by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. He previously served as Minister for the Environment and Energy, Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Assistant Treasurer and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister since the 2013 election. Josh has Law and Economics degrees both with Honours from Monash University and completed his articles of clerkship at Mallesons Stephen Jacques. He went on to graduate with a Masters in International Relations from Oxford University which he attended on a Commonwealth Scholarship and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Josh was a Senior Adviser to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Prime Minister John Howard and was a Director of Global Banking at Deutsche Bank AG. Josh is a keen tennis player having represented Australia at the World University Games in England in 1991 and the United States in 1993.