About us

The QPC provides independent policy advice to the Queensland Government to help lift productivity, drive economic growth and enhance living standards for Queenslanders. You can view the Queensland Productivity Commission Act on the Queensland Legislation website.

Angela Moody Productivity Commissioner and Chair BEcon, BA, MProfEcon, GradDipAppFin, GAICD Angela was appointed as the QPC Commissioner in April 2025. Angela has over twenty years’ experience in policy development and evaluation, regulation and legislative reform, strategic development and implementation, stakeholder management, corporate governance and commercial analysis across private and public sectors. Her executive experience is complemented by over fifteen years’ as a Non-Executive Director and Committee Chair on Not for Profit Boards. Prior to joining the Commission, Angela was the Chief Financial Officer at the Gladstone Area Water Board where she led a cross functional team covering the areas of finance, pricing, legal, procurement, property, technology and risk. Before joining the Gladstone Area Water Board, Angela was a consultant advising private and public sector clients on a range of issues relating to policy development and evaluation, regulation and legislative reform, strategic development and implementation. She has also held management roles in industries subject to economic regulation or experiencing structural and market change. Angela is an economist with a Bachelor of Economics, a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Professional Economics from The University of Queensland. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and Australian Graduate School of Management and Securities Institute of Australia. Angela currently holds Non Executive Director and Committee roles with organisations focused on supporting Queenslanders during difficult times and the provision of education.

Dr Karen Hooper Commissioner B.Econ (Hons), Ph.D, GAICD Karen was appointed as a QPC Commissioner in April 2025. Karen has extensive policy, leadership and stakeholder engagement experience gained from senior management roles across the public sector. Prior to joining the QPC, Karen was Head of Productivity in Queensland Treasury where she led the Office of Productivity and Red Tape Reduction (OPRTR), providing research, analysis and regulatory advice to support evidence-based policy development, with a significant focus on housing and construction and the revitalisation of National Competition Policy. Before joining Treasury in 2021, she was the former Chair and Principal Commissioner of the Queensland Productivity Commission, where she led the Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Market in Queensland. Karen has spent much of her career at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) where she led the Bank’s Queensland Office and international finance function, involving engagement with multilateral institutions including the G20 and International Monetary Fund. Through her leadership of the RBA’s liaison program in Queensland, Karen developed significant experience in stakeholder engagement to support gathering of real-time economic intelligence to inform policy advice and to build a better understanding of the impact of structural adjustment within the economy. In this role, she specialised in the tourism, education and resource sectors and also advised on the economic impact of supply-side disruptions and regulatory changes affecting Australia’s key export sectors. Karen is an economist with a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honours) and a PhD in Economics from The University of Queensland, where she was awarded a University Medal. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Executive Fellows Program. Karen is a strong advocate of the role economists can play in helping to deliver improved community outcomes through data-led policy advice. Karen is currently a member of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) Council on Economic Policy and the Institute of Public Administration Australia Council (Queensland). Karen is also active in promoting economic literacy and career pathways in economics through her role as an advisor to the Queensland Economics Teachers’ Association and membership of The University of Queensland’s School of Economics Advisory Board, The Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) and Women in Economics Network.