Chris Rodwell has specific expertise in innovation policy and skills development, and has held non-executive positions on bodies regulating workplace health and safety, workers compensation, vocational education and training.
Mr Rodwell has been chief executive of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia since February 2018, and a director of Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry since March 2018. Prior to that, he spent 4 years as Australia’s Trade Commissioner to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean where he oversaw a transformation in Australia’s commercial relationship with Mexico across the resources, advanced manufacturing, food and agribusiness, infrastructure and education sectors. His role also included regular travel to Western Australia to establish and foster relationships with many major businesses engaged in international markets, successfully securing participation of WA’s resources sector in Mexico following a historic reform program. Mr Rodwell was also the Queensland State Government’s Trade and Investment Commissioner for the Americas, and a director of Australian Industry Group in Queensland.
