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Prue Morris
Managing Director, Policy and Enforcement
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Ms Morris joined the QFC Regulatory Authority in October 2006 as
Associate Director, Policy, moving to the position of Director, Policy
in 2010, followed by her appointment in January 2015 to Senior
Director of the reformulated Policy and Legislative Counsel Division.
In August 2016, she was appointed Managing Director, Policy
and Enforcement, with responsibility for policy, enforcement and
legislative counsel.

With over 26 years of experience in financial sector regulatory policy,
Ms Morris serves on joint regulatory committees in Qatar. She is
involved in training Qatari law graduates through the Regulatory
Authority’s Al Masar nationalisation programme and has served as a
mentor in the Qatar University Women’s Law Mentoring Program.
Ms Morris came to the Regulatory Authority from the Australian
Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), where she was a senior
policy officer and involved in prudential policy work in the banking,
insurance and superannuation (pension) industries. She contributed
to key superannuation and life insurance reforms, implementing
policy recommendations of the Australian Financial System Inquiry
(Wallis) Report and the General Insurance reform package in
response to the HIH Royal Commission. She was responsible for
legislative work and coordination with the Commonwealth Treasury
and Attorney-General’s Department on APRA’s policy issues from
2000 to 2006.
Ms Morris has also held positions relating to Australia’s energy
policy development, including participation in high-level Asia-Pacific
Economic Co-operation forums.