The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today announced the appointment of Dr Steve Davies to the role of General Manager, Statistics.

APRA's Statistics Unit is Australia's national repository of financial sector information and collects financial statistics from a wide range of financial institutions and on behalf of other regulatory and statistical agencies. The Unit provides independent and authoritative information and analysis on the financial sector and individual financial institutions.

Dr Davies holds an Honours degree in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Statistical Science from the Australian National University, for which he was awarded the University Prize. He was also awarded the EJG Pitman prize by the Statistical Society of Australia. Dr Davies is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Prior to joining APRA in 1999, Dr Davies worked with the CSIRO for ten years as an applied statistical scientist.


The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is the prudential regulator of the financial services industry. It oversees banks, credit unions, building societies, general insurance and reinsurance companies, life insurance, friendly societies, and most members of the superannuation industry. APRA is funded largely by the industries that it supervises. It was established on 1 July 1998. APRA currently supervises institutions holding approximately $2.2 trillion in assets for 20 million Australian depositors, policyholders and superannuation fund members.

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