Australia’s five most powerful people in consulting for 2026
by Edmund Tadros · Australian Financial ReviewEdmund TadrosProfessional services editor
Sep 22, 2026 – 5.00am
What a difference a year makes. Last year, KPMG chief executive Andrew Yates topped The Australian Financial Review Magazine’s consulting power list. Yates had helped the firm win a series of big audits and managed cost well enough to give partners a pay bump.
And then on the evening of March 24, Labor senator Deborah O’Neill stood up in the Senate and, using parliamentary privilege, quoted a whistleblower who claimed KPMG audit partners had misused confidential client data and leveraged conflicted relationships to win audit work.
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Edmund TadrosProfessional services editorEdmund Tadros leads our coverage of the professional services sector. He is based in our Sydney newsroom. Email Edmund at edmundtadros@afr.com.au
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