Joshua Frydenberg
Josh Frydenberg, 38, is the Liberal Party’s endorsed candidate for the Federal seat of Kooyong, in Melbourne.
Josh has an LLB (Hons) and BEc (Hons) from Monash University, a Masters in International Relations (MPhil) from Oxford University where he attended on a Commonwealth Scholarship and a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government.
He was also a Director of Global Banking at one of the world’s leading investment banks and was formerly Senior Adviser on Security and Justice Issues to the Prime Minister, John Howard and a Senior Adviser before that to the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer.
Prior to working in Canberra he completed his articles of clerkship at the national law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
Joshua is a keen tennis player having represented Australia at the World University Games in Sheffield, UK (1991) and at Buffalo, USA (1993) and is a Board Member of the Kids Tennis Foundation which provides tennis coaching to socially and financially disadvantaged children throughout Australia.
Joshua has also been a regular contributor to leading Australian newspapers on a range of economic and foreign policy issues.
Articles by Joshua Frydenberg
Why Australia must stay the course in Afghanistan
News that our Diggers have rejected Kevin Rudd’s pessimistic view of the war in Afghanistan is no surprise. A foreign…... Read more
Kevin Rudd’s character and credibility gap
Bob Hawke once asked the rhetorical question “Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don’t exude morality.” Wind…... Read more
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