Education
University of Melbourne. Australian National University.
University of Melbourne. Australian National University.
He is also the Chairman of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales. He has previously worked as a development economist in Papua New Guinea as well as for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Sims was also formerly a Deputy Secretary in the The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and in the Department of Transport.
He also held the position of Chief Economics Adviser to former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
Sims has previously held roles with the InfraCo Asia Development (Internal Audit Division) as a founding Non-Executive Director and the Chairman a position in held from May 2010 until June 2011 when he resigned to take up the chairmanship of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.