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Leon Walker
Deputy Secretary - Property, Development and Valuation,
Property & Development NSW
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- I joined the NSW Government in 2015 after a career in investment banking and funds management with Macquarie and Mirvac
- I am CEO of Property and Development NSW, the NSW Government’s central property agency responsible for a wide range of property activities and one of Australia’s largest commercial property owners and lessees.
- More recently I was also appointed as Deputy Secretary of the Property, Development and Valuation group in the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure with responsibility for a number of NSW Government agencies undertaking State significant work including Value NSW, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the Office of Strategic Lands, Waste Asset Management Corporation and Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation.
- Important initiatives I’ve led in recent times include: development and launch of the NSW Government’s Land Audit, identifying government owned land that can be repurposed to delivery critically needed housing across NSW; and, development and launch of the Government Property Framework, a new governance model to efficiently and effectively govern the use and transfer of land within the government sector.
- PDNSW has been a leader within the NSW Government in respect to recognising and acting on its responsibility to make a significant and lasting contribution to the prospects and welfare of Aboriginal people across NSW; this has included:
- effecting a number of negotiated land transfers to Aboriginal organisations including Brewarrina, Mooney Mooney, Eden and Grafton;
- inclusion of Aboriginal employment and procurement targets in service and delivery contracts;
- embracing the NSW Government’s Connecting with Country framework in the design of precincts it is leading; and
- after adopting our first Reflect RAP in March 2023, quickly progressing to the second stage Innovate RAP in March this year by demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation through action.
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