Michael Coutts-Trotter’s best advice for the young and ambitious
The NSW Treasury secretary explains how to test decisions, work with political staffers, the best way to build a career – and his love of steel-cut oats.
NSW Treasury secretary Michael Coutts-Trotter has returned to the same portfolio where he worked for seven years as a young ministerial adviser.
Then, he was chief of staff to Michael Egan, a Labor treasurer with big ideas about how to rethink state finances. Now, Coutts-Trotter is once again advising a reformist treasurer, the energetic Daniel Mookhey.
