Richard Aarons is a chief executive at a strategy consulting firm, API4 Australia. He has served on the Board NAA since its inception in 2011 and was appointed Chair in 2021. Richard grew up in the South Gippsland, Victoria, represented a Gippsland electorate in federal parliament and now lives with his family in Central Victoria. He has been the Executive officer of the Federal Government’s one-billion- dollar Development Australia Fund Advisory.