Opening Address

Gary Prattley–Chairman, Western Australian Planning Commission

Gary Prattley has 41 years experience in planning, urban management and governance at local, metropolitan, regional, state and national government levels.

Mr Prattley also has private sector planning experience as a senior planning consultant working across Australia and headed government planning systems in Western Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. He was also responsible for Metropolitan Sydney in The New South Wales Department of Infrastructure and Planning.

For four years, from 1997 to 2001, Mr Prattley was the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry for Planning in WA, predecessor of the Department of Planning.

Mr Prattley has a Masters in Town Planning; is a Certified Practicing Planner; Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Australian Property Institute; and a member of the Urban Development Institute of Australia.

He was appointed as Chairman of the Western Australian Planning Commission in April 2009.