David Kwong

Executive summary

David is the Lead Partner of BDO’s Project & Infrastructure Advisory team in Melbourne. He specialises in providing advice on complex infrastructure projects, precinct regeneration, and public policy initiatives.

David has over 15 years’ experience helping private and public sector clients solve problems around how infrastructure should be created and delivered. His work ranges from infrastructure planning and feasibility analysis through to activating urban and regional areas.

Prior to joining BDO in 2022, David led the Australia/Pacific infrastructure and precincts advisory practice for an NYSE-listed global consulting firm, and held senior leadership positions in government agencies. This helps him provide advice that reflects an understanding of public and private interests.

Expertise

• Business case development
• Financial and economic analysis
• Public policy and regulatory analysis
• Precinct strategy and activation
• Infrastructure planning
• Government transaction management

Experience

• A precinct benefits and activation study for a state government to identify the long-term benefits associated with a major 12-hectare CBD precinct development, valued at $3.6 billion
• Investment attraction for a state government department to identify private sector-led project opportunities, and further growth in existing metropolitan and regional economic precincts
• Property portfolio strategy and development advice for federal government land valued at $230 million
• Exploring renewal opportunities for a $1 billion portfolio of state government housing assets, including opportunities to enhance energy efficiency
• Infrastructure strategy and planning to support regional community development
• Engagement partner for a state-wide analysis of innovation precincts, identifying a pipeline of high-potential precincts and actions a state government could take to support their acceleration and achieve economic growth in new industries
• Provided a state government department with strategy, business case, and precinct advice for developing integrated resort precincts (capital value over $1 billion) on government-held land.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business
• Master of Property Studies
• Graduate Diploma in International Urban and Environmental Management
• Affiliate member, CA ANZ