Prior to entering parliament, Minister Taylor was a Director at Port Jackson Partners where he was a strategy and business advisor on the resources, agriculture, energy and infrastructure sectors. Before this, he was a partner at global consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

Minister Taylor has a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honours and University Medal) and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Sydney. He has a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar and wrote a thesis on competition policy.

A quote on the subject:

“A successful global energy transition means delivering affordable, clean and reliable energy to households and industry, capturing new opportunities and driving down the cost of low emissions technologies to accelerate their deployment.”