Labor appoints well-known Grattan Institute chief after senior Victorian treasury official Chris Barrett pulls out of recruitment process
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The Albanese government has appointed Danielle Wood, a former productivity commission economist, to head the institution after its first choice, Chris Barrett, pulled out.
Wood, 43, is currently the chief executive of the Grattan Institute, a think tank, and will become the first woman to head the commission in its century of various government incarnations.
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