Melinda Cilento has significant public and private sector experience in economic policy development and analysis.
Ms Cilento has been chief executive of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) since October 2017. Prior to that, she was the commissioner at the Productivity Commission, deputy chief executive (2006 to 2010) and chief economist (2002 to 2010) of the Business Council of Australia, head of economics at County Investment Management (now Invesco), and had also worked at the Department of Treasury and International Monetary Fund.