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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,

legislative counsel and international matters.

With over 27 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.

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