Rear Window
Luke Sayers had millions of reasons to hire Mathias Cormann
Under Mathias Cormann’s oversight, government spending on consultancies swelled nearly four-fold.
Myriam RobinRear Window editorWhen the OECD tapped Mathias Cormann to become its secretary-general in 2021, the nimble Luke Sayers dodged yet another bullet. Not that we knew it before Sayers’ answers to Senate questions on notice last week, revealing how close his firm, Sayers Group, came to hiring Cormann as a partner.
Sayers has spent much of the year repeatedly emphasising how little he knew about the tax leaks scandal, which occurred while he led PwC but came to light only after he left.
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