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Ms Prue Morris
Managing Director, Policy and Enforcement

Ms Morris joined the Regulatory Authority in October 2006 as Asso-
ciate Director, Policy, moving to the position of Director, Policy in
2010, followed by her appointment in January 2015 to Senior Direc-
tor of the reformulated Policy and Legislative Counsel Division. In
August 2016, she was appointed Managing Director, Policy and
Enforcement, with responsibility for policy, enforcement and leg-
islative counsel.
With over 23 years of experience in financial sector regulatory
policy, Ms Morris serves on joint regulatory committees in Qatar.
She is involved in training Qatari law graduates through both the
Regulatory Authority’s Al Masar nationalisation programme and
serving as a mentor in the Qatar University Women’s Law Mentoring
Programme.

Ms Morris came to the Regulatory Authority from the Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in Australia, where she was
a senior policy officer and involved in prudential policy work in
the banking, insurance and superannuation (pension) industries.
She contributed to key superannuation and life insurance reforms,
implementing policy recommendations of the Australian Financial
System Inquiry (Wallis) Report and the General Insurance reform
package in response to the HIH Royal Commission. She was respon-
sible for legislative work and coordination with the Commonwealth
Treasury and Attorney-General’s Department on APRA’s policy
issues from 2000 to 2006.
Ms Morris has also held positions relating to Australia’s energy policy
development, including participation in high-level Asia-Pacific Eco-
nomic Cooperation (APEC) forums.