The Brief:
Luke Woodward returns to the ACCC as a full-time Commissioner.
The move bolsters the regulator’s merger enforcement muscle ahead of Australia’s new merger control regime.
After 25 years, Luke Woodward is heading back to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, this time as a Commissioner.
The former King & Wood Mallesons partner and national head of competition law joined the watchdog on 10 October, filling the vacancy left by Liza Carver.
Woodward’s career spans more than three decades across competition, consumer, and regulatory law. That includes senior stints at Gilbert + Tobin and the ACCC, where he served as general counsel and exec general manager between 1993 and 2000.
Luke’s strong litigation experience will be an asset to the ACCC’s work, particularly in our enforcement program and in Australia’s new merger regime.
Woodward will chair the enforcement committee and sit on the mergers review committee, as well as the water and agriculture board—all central to the ACCC’s 2025–2030 priorities.