Amy Auster is a partner at Scyne Advisory, Australia’s largest Public Sector consulting practice. Amy helps clients successfully develop and implement policy initiatives and reforms in her areas of expertise: public finance, public goods (energy, water, waste) and housing.Prior to joining PwC, Amy served as CEO of the Commonwealth's Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency; Chief Adviser, Commonwealth Treasury; and Deputy Secretary, Economic at the Department of Treasury and Finance in Victoria. She has lead the Australian Centre for Financial Studies as Executive Director; the Foundation for Development Cooperation as Principal Consultant and worked as an economist, strategist and senior executive for ANZ Banking Group during the bank's expansion into Asia. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University in the Monash Business School and a member of RMIT's APEC Study Centre Advisory Board, a passionate advocate for women in economics, the proud mother of three children and a devotee of the great outdoors.