Chiang Lim

Chiang joined ACA NSW in 2016. He brings over 25 years of senior executive experiences from government, not-for-profit, industry associations, fast moving consumer goods, business insurance, defence, information technology and telecommunications sectors.

He also serves as the ACA NSW representative at the NSW Department of Education’s Early Childhood Advisory Group, the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian and the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA). ACA NSW’s advocacies include children's and preschool children's outcomes, quality ratings, child protection, qualifications, vocational and tertiary training, compliance, emergency/evacuation protocols in high-density buildings, transparency of reporting, legislative/regulatory reforms, funding, COVID, as well as planning and development.

Chiang’s past career highlights include contributing to NSW's up to 328% increase in preschool funding for long daycare services, NSW's $5.8b Universal Pre-Kindergarten, $5b Childcare and Economic Opportunity Fund, negotiating the world’s highest remuneration arrangements for Australian lottery agents, the removal of over $1b annually in redundant labour-costs resulting from the globally controversial tobacco plain packaging legislation, project managing the then world’s fastest mobile number portability operation industry code and subordinate legislation across all Australian telecommunications carriers, installed engineering and US logistics databases as part of building our ANZAC-Class frigates and Collins-Class submarines, as well as producing Australia/New Zealand’s first national standard for IT security for businesses.