Angus Taylor(1966–)

Angus James Taylor was born at Goulburn in the southern tablelands of New South Wales on 8 August 1966, son of a Goulburn sheep farmer and a teacher. The family ran a fine-wool merino operation on the elevated grazing country between Goulburn and Canberra; he was schooled at the small Nimmitabel public school and then at The King's School, Parramatta.

He took a first-class honours degree in agricultural economics at the University of Sydney with the University Medal, won the Rhodes Scholarship for New South Wales in 1989, and went up to New College, Oxford for an M.Phil. in Economics and a D.Phil. on agricultural-trade policy, completed in 1994.

He worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in London and Sydney from 1995, ran McKinsey's Sydney office as a senior partner from 2003, and in 2007 co-founded Port Jackson Partners, a Sydney consulting firm specialising in agricultural and resources-sector strategy.

He was preselected as the Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Hume in the southern New South Wales tablelands and won it at the 2013 election with a sixty-four per cent two-party margin, holding it through the four subsequent general elections at progressively larger margins. He served as Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, then for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, and as Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction from 2019 to 2022 in the Morrison government, the senior appointment of his career.

He has served as Shadow Treasurer since 2022, running the Liberal economic-policy critique of the Albanese government, and contested the Liberal Party leadership in May 2025, continuing as Shadow Treasurer in the Sussan Ley shadow cabinet. The Taylor name, the medieval occupational taillour, the cutter of cloth, he carries in its Australian-rural-Liberal political variant alongside the historian A. J. P. Taylor as the two contemporary heads of the surname.