Adam Wand
Mr Adam Wand
Chief of Staff
Office of Senator the Hon Nick Sherry
Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law
Based in Canberra, Adam heads up the office of Australia's first ever Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, the Hon Senator Nick Sherry, in the new Rudd Commonwealth Government.
Adam's interest in politics and social affairs began at an early age, was focused throughout his involvement in debating and public speaking at high school in South-western Sydney, and eventually saw him join the Australian Labor Party in his mid-teens. Adam went on to study Arts/Law at Sydney University, focusing on constitutional law, government and international affairs.
After university there was a momentary transition into the legal sphere where Adam took up appointments with the NSW Attorney General's Department in Sydney, as a foreign lawyer at Anderson Mori Attorneys in Tokyo, and with Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, the world's third largest law firm in London. Whilst in the UK, Adam obtained a Masters in International Relations as a Sir Arthur Simms Travelling Scholar at the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Civil Law (Law Masters) with a First at Oxford University. He received various awards for this work including from the Ashburn Institute in Washington DC and the Australia-China Council.
Around this time, Adam was again bitten by the political bug and served as President and Secretary of ALP Abroad, the Labor Party's international campaigning arm. In mid-2005 Adam returned to Sydney from his expat travels where he was appointed as a senior advisor to the Iemma Government in NSW, in which he served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Minister for Ports and Waterways, Regulatory Reform and Small Business, and also Chief of Staff to the Minister for Housing and Mental Health.
Adam's other political passions are federalism and republicanism and has held numerous elected positions in the Australian Republican Movement, including on its National Committee and with the Canadian-based Forum of Federations, an international organisation for federal states.