Richard Dowling

Parliamentary service

First entered federal Parliament: 1 July 2025.

Service periods below follow the Handbook’s election and service boundaries. The source-reported duration above is shown separately from our interval calculation.

1. 1 July 2025 – CurrentSenate

   Elected to the Senate for Tasmania, 2025.

Current responsibilities

Ministry and shadow ministry

No current ministry or shadow-ministry appointment is recorded in this Handbook snapshot.

Parliamentary and party offices

No additional current parliamentary or party office is recorded in this import.

These are the Handbook’s dated appointments. Party spokespeople and committee memberships outside these records need their own source checks.

Background before Parliament

Qualifications recorded by Parliament

• Master of Business Administration, University of Warwick
• Bachelor of Economics, University of Tasmania

Occupations recorded by Parliament

• Director at Meta, 2024.
• Senior Director and Head of Asia Pacific at VMware from 2020 to 2024.
• Chief Economist and Head of Global Affairs at The Faraday Grid from 2017 to 2019.
• Government Affairs at Baxter Healthcare from 2014 to 2017.
• Senior Economic Adviser to the Premier, the Hon. L Giddings, MHA (Tas.) from 2010 to 2014.
• Chief Economist at the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 2007 to 2010.
• Policy Analyst at the Department of Treasury & Finance (Tas.) from 2002 to 2007.
• Cook at KFC from 1999 to 2002.

Appointment history