Tom Harley is a political scientist with an economics and finance background. He founded Dragoman in 2009.

In 2019, he was appointed as one of the three Australian representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council. From 2008 to 2018, Tom was Non-Executive Chairman of Dow Chemical (Australia) and Senior Advisor to the Dow Chemical Company’s Executive Leadership Team globally.

Previously, Tom was President of Corporate Development at BHP, where he designed and implemented the company’s worldwide political risk analysis methodology and developed strategies in countries where BHP wanted to do business – including some very challenging African and Asian countries. He has worked on fiscal regime issues across the resources sector in many different countries.

He was also head of Mergers and Acquisitions for BHP’s Petroleum Group. Prior to his work in petroleum, Tom was involved in BHP’s financial restructuring and funding in BHP’s Corporate Treasury.

Tom is Chairman of the Australia Saudi Business Council, a Director of the Colonial Foundation, and Chair of the Edward Wilson Trust.