Dr Deborah Ralston has more than 24 years of board-level experience across commercial and public sectors. She is currently a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia Payments System Board and holds a number of non-executive director roles. In 2019 Deborah was appointed by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to the 3-member panel for the Retirement Income Review.

Deborah is currently a Professorial Fellow at Monash University, where she is a member of the Steering Committee for the Mercer CPA Global Pension Index. She was previously the Principal Investigator of the CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster, and inaugural Chair of ASIC’s Digital Finance Advisory Committee. In 2018, she was appointed to the Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement Framework Advisory Committee.

Dr Ralston holds a Master of Economics, a Doctor of Philosophy in financial regulation and is a Fellow of CPA Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has accepted the role of "Chairperson" on Household Capital's Board.