Diane Kraal is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Law and Taxation.
Diane has held roles in the minerals resource sector with Conzinc Rio Tinto of Australia (CRA) Ltd as a management and financial accountant. She is an experienced professional having worked with Ernst and Young and was a Registered Tax Agent. Diane has worked in the financial services sector as the taxation manager with Australia’s largest administrator of industry superannuation funds.
For eight years she was Manager (Taxation and Banking) at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Diane has presented research papers at conferences both in Australia and overseas, including at the University of Cambridge in 2012 and 2014. In 2015 Diane was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to the Australian National University. In 2016 Diane visited the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC to pursue extractive industry tax issues.
In 2014 and 2015 the National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the PNG Treasury appointed Dr Diane Kraal and Dr Craig Emerson (former Federal Minister with the Rudd and Gillard governments) to research petroleum and mining tax reform. Tax reform in PNG has the support of the IMF. PNG’s National Budget 2017 broadly includes Kraal and Emerson’s petroleum and mining tax reform initiatives. In 2017 Diane is conducting further research for the National Research Institute of PNG.
