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ACT Government Economic Development Directorate

ACT Government Economic Development Directorate

Our Minister

Andrew Barr, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Economic Development

Andrew Barr, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Economic Development.Andrew Barr MLA has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly since being elected as a replacement for Ted Quinlan in the seat of Molonglo in April 2006. On Monday 16 May 2011 he was appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of the ACT.

Andrew is the Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Education and Training, and the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation.

Andrew was born in Lismore in 1973 and moved to Canberra in 1977. He attended the AME School, Turner Primary School, Lyneham High School and Lake Ginninderra College before completing a Bachelor of Arts (Policy Studies), majoring in economics, economic history and political science at the Australian National University in 1995.

Since graduating from the ANU, Andrew has worked in the private sector as an account manager and salesperson and in the political sphere, as a policy and parliamentary adviser and Chief of Staff to a Labor Minister.

For Andrew’s full biography visit the ACT Chief Minister’s Website.img-icn-extlink

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