Hon. Michael Mischin

The Hon. Michael Mischin LLB (Hons) BJuris (Hons) UWA, MAICD is a lawyer by background, with extensive experience at the highest levels of government and the workings of public sector institutions. A former Member of the Western Australian Parliament, he served for 12 years representing the Legislative Council’s North Metropolitan Region. While in Government he was the State’s Attorney General and Minister for Commerce, and retained those portfolios as a shadow minister while in Opposition, along with Heritage, Culture and the Arts. During his parliamentary and ministerial career, he was chair and member of various parliamentary committees and ministerial councils. More recently, until its abolition, he was a Deputy President of the Commonwealth’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Head of its National Disability Insurance Scheme Division.

His Commerce portfolio included responsibility for the Department’s Industry and Innovation Division, the Bentley Technology Park, Innovation Centre of WA, WA Innovator of the Year Awards and Henderson Marine Complex.

Michael is a long-time supporter of Western Australian innovation and confident that Western Australians are among the best in the world in finding novel and universally beneficial solutions to challenges.