AFR Magazine’s hotly anticipated Power issue, out on Friday, October 2, includes lists of the key players across six industry sectors. Here are Australia’s five most powerful people in consulting.

The coronavirus pandemic hit the consulting sector hard and fast when Australia went into lockdown in March. Before this, the major firms, including the big four consultants Ernst & Young, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC, had been posting strong year-on-year growth amid growing demand from the private and public sectors.