Paul Fletcher

Principal, Paul Fletcher & Associates

Paul Fletcher served as a Liberal MP in Australia’s parliament from 2009 to 2025. From 2013 to 2022 he was successively a Parliamentary Secretary, Minister and Cabinet Minister. Apart from nine months as Minister for Social Services, Paul’s front bench service was largely in communications and infrastructure.

He was Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts in the Morrison Government. In his last term Paul was Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy, and Manager of Opposition Business in the House. Paul is Chairman of Vodafone Fiji, a director of Amalgamated Telecom Holdings, a director of the Tech Council of Australia and and an advisor to transport technology business CompassIOT.

His advisory business, Paul Fletcher and Associates, serves clients in the communications, infrastructure and digital sectors. Before politics, Paul’s extensive private sector experience included eight years on the Senior Management Team at telecommunications company Optus.

Paul has spoken and written extensively on communications and technology policy issues, including writing two books, Wired Brown Land: Telstra’s Battle for Broadband (UNSW Press, 2009) and Governing in the Internet Age (Monash University Press, 2021).

Paul has dual first class honours degrees in law and economics from Sydney University and an MBA from Columbia University in New York where he was a Fulbright Scholar.