Paul Broad

Moved from the Central Coast to the Newcastle area in 1964. He attended high school at Hamilton Marist Brothers college. He received Honours and master's degrees from Newcastle University in Economics. His honours thesis was on the perils of price control in the milk industry. ==Career==

Broad began his career in the Federal Treasury in Canberra in 1974. In 1978 he returned to Newcastle to complete a Masters of Commerce (Economics). 2011 - Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure NSW ($500,000 salary - highest paid bureaucrat in NSW History). As of 2011 Broad is a director of Kuth Energy. 2013 - Appointed Chief Executive of Snowy Hydro. 2019-20 - As CEO of Snowy Hydro Broad receives over $2 million in salary and bonuses. 2022 - Resigned as CEO of Snowy Hydro. 2024 - Now working for McCloy Group. ==Personal life==

Broad is married to Genevieve (his second wife) and they have two children. He is a keen surfer starting as a teenager and continuing into middle age. ==Political positions==

Broad is an advocate of user-pays pricing, and champions the power of the market. This led to substantial pricing changes at Hunter Water and consequently demand dropped by 30 percent. He is also philosophically committed to involvement of the private sector, and in his role at the head of Infrastructure NSW has been reported supporting rail privatisation, congestion charges, and expanded tollways. == References ==