Rosemary Huxtable

Rosemary Huxtable
Secretary of the Department of Finance
In office
22 December 2016  8 August 2022
Preceded byJane Halton
Succeeded byJenny Wilkinson
Personal details
NationalityAustralian
Children3 sons
OccupationPublic servant

Rosemary Therese Huxtable AO PSM is a retired senior Australian public servant. She was the Secretary of the Department of Finance from December 2016 to August 2022.

From 2010 to 2013, Huxtable was a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Health and Ageing. She moved to the Department of Finance in 2013, also as a Deputy Secretary. In her finance department role, Huxtable played a key role developing several Australian federal budgets.

When former Finance Secretary Jane Halton stood down in 2016, Huxtable was promoted to act as head of the agency, having been recommended to the role by the Prime Minister. She was appointed permanently to the role after it being recommended by the Prime Minister in December 2016. She retired on 8 August 2022.