Andrew Charlton

Charlton secured more than 25,000 first preference votes at the 2022 federal election. He claimed victory on the day of the election following concession by his opponent, Maria Kovacic.

Charlton moved from a $16 million home in Bellevue Hill and purchased a house in North Parramatta in May 2022, however this persisted as a topic of controversy after rumours circulated that Charlton’s family remained in the affluent Eastern suburbs while he resides part time in Parramatta’s luxurious Meriton apartments, instead electing to rent out the North Parramatta home. He is married to barrister Phoebe Arcus, with whom he has three children. Charlton is a member of the Labor Right faction.

From December 2007 to June 2010, Charlton served as the chief economic adviser to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. This period coincided with the global financial crisis, during which Charlton played a role alongside Rudd in overseeing Australia's response to the crisis, in which he established a reputation as one of the most innovative and gifted economists in Australia.

Andrew Charlton (born 1979) is an Australian politician and economist who has been Member of Parliament for the division of Parramatta since 2022.

Andrew Charlton was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1979. Charlton won the university medal for economics at the University of Sydney, where he was a resident of St Paul's College, and as a Rhodes Scholar received a PhD in economics from the University of Oxford.