Timothy Charles James is an Australian politician. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the

2022 Willoughby state by-election A by-election was held in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Willoughby on 12 February 2022, caused by the resignation of Premier of New South Wales and Liberal MP Gladys Berejiklian. The Willoughby by-election was held on the sa ...

. In 2022, in his third preselection attempt to run for the Liberal Party, he was successful in becoming the candidate for the

, defeating popularly-elected local Mayor and member of the moderate faction Gail Giles-Gidney. He held the seat on 12 February 2022 despite a 19.2% swing to independent candidate Larissa Penn.

Professional and political life

Born and raised in the northern Sydney suburb of Artarmon, James joined the Liberal Party in 1993. From 1996, he worked in the offices of Joe Hockey and the then Prime Minister, John Howard in conjunction with completing his law and economic studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW in 2002, James worked as a commercial lawyer for Allens Arthur Robinson and then as a legal adviser to Pfizer Australia. This was followed by a career in business, working for Pfizer Australia, KPMG and also Johnson & Johnson. As well as undertaking secondments in New York and London, James completed a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management. Returning to politics, James worked as the Chief of Staff to Anthony Roberts who served as the NSW Minister for Fair Trading from 2011–2013 and then as Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy, and Special Minister of State. From 2014–2015, James served as the Chief Executive Officer of Medicines Australia. After which time, he founded his own consultancy businesses and served on the Board of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. In 2017 he unsuccessfully contested Liberal preselection for the 2017 North Shore by-election, losing to moderate

Felicity Wilson Felicity Lesley Wilson (born 7 June 1982) is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electoral district of North Shore for the Liberal Party since 2017. Wilson was first electe ...

. In 2018, James sought to run again for the seat of North Shore and challenged sitting MP

for preselection, narrowly losing the preselection and taking the unusual step of challenging the result in the NSW Supreme Court. James lost his legal challenge, with the court ruling against him. From 2019–2022, James served as the Executive General Manager of the Menzies Research Centre, the think tank of the Liberal Party of Australia. James has also served on the National Board of Life Education Australia.

Member for Willoughby

James was elected at the

on 12 February 2022. In October 2022 delivered a speech in NSW Parliament stating his opposition to the Government's planned infrastructure program's of The Western Harbour Tunnel, The Warringah Freeway Upgrade and the Beaches Link Tunnel. In the June 2022 NSW budget it was clear that the Beaches Link program had not been funded and was effectively "on ice".https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-told-to-put-high-profile-road-transport-projects-on-ice-20220530-p5app7.html

References

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