Experience

Australian Energy Regulator

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• General Manager - Compliance and Enforcement Branch

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Rowena leads the AER’s Compliance and Enforcement Branch as General Manager, focusing on making energy consumers better off. The branch encompasses retail authorisations, exemptions, retail and wholesale compliance, compliance assessment and reporting and a number of enforcement teams. Rowena leads the AER’s Compliance and Enforcement Branch as General Manager, focusing on making energy consumers better off. The branch encompasses retail authorisations, exemptions, retail and wholesale compliance, compliance assessment and reporting and a number of enforcement teams.



ASIC

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group Senior Manager

  • Sep 2020 - Aug 2021

  Rowena was a Group Senior Manager within Financial Services Enforcement at ASIC. She managed 60 staff with 6 managers reporting to her managing a large number of financial services and credit investigations across Australia

• Senior Manager

  • Feb 2018 - Sep 2020

  Rowena has previously led an Enforcement team within ASIC's Brisbane office focusing on financial services and credit enforcement work. She supervised a large number of investigations into misconduct within the financial services and credit industries as well as numerous criminal, civil and administrative enforcement proceedings. Rowena also led the Royal Commission Litigation Program between 2019 and 2020 swiftly bringing a large number of court proceedings arising out of the Banking Royal Commission within tight timeframes

• Senior Lawyer and Senior Specialist

  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2018

  Rowena was a Senior Specialist within ASIC, contributing as a technical leader in the Financial Services Enforcement team nationally. Rowena provided strategic, legal and technical advice and guidance across multiple civil, criminal and administrative financial services and credit investigations as well as engaged in liaison with external law enforcement agencies and worked on policy development and law reform projects including the Treasury-led ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce where Rowena co-led the ASIC project team supporting the review of ASIC’s powers and penalties.



Norton Rose Fulbright

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Associate

  • Mar 2010 - Feb 2016

  Rowena worked on a broad range of matters at Norton Rose Fulbright including as the lead on the Queensland Floods Class Action acting for SunWater. She also undertook dispute advisory work for resources clients, as well as acted in contractual, trade practices, franchise, regulatory and property disputes. Rowena also acted for the receivers and managers of the Soul development in enforcing pre-sales contracts for high value units. Rowena also worked on two constitutional High Court challenges and completed an 18 month secondment to ASIC.



King & Wood Mallesons

• Hong Kong
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solicitor and Senior Associate

  • Sep 2006 - Feb 2010

  Rowena worked in the dispute resolution team at Mallesons for three and half years and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2009. Her practice encompassed both general commercial litigation with a focus on property-related disputes as well as insolvency litigation. In 2008, Rowena was seconded to the legal team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia managing the bank's Queensland-based litigation. Rowena worked in the dispute resolution team at Mallesons for three and half years and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2009. Her practice encompassed both general commercial litigation with a focus on property-related disputes as well as insolvency litigation. In 2008, Rowena was seconded to the legal team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia managing the bank's Queensland-based litigation.



DibbsBarker

• Australia
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Articled Clerk and Solicitor

  • Dec 2003 - Sep 2006

  Rowena completed two years' articles of clerkship at DibbsBarker. Rowena completed two years' articles of clerkship at DibbsBarker.