Our weekly appointments wrap includes Lanie Chopping, Rebecca Brown, Peter Woronzow, Richard Sellers, Prudence Griffin, Jessie Liu-Ernsting, Shannon Robinson, Rhys Waldon, Mark Pivac, Brett Smith, Michael Skead, Jackson Allen and Jackie Donald.
Roger Cook's name has been a regular feature on the annual list of Western Australia's most influential business and political players published by Business News.
Western Australia's highest-ranking bureaucrat Emily Roper will vacate her role at the end of next week, following Labor's victory at last weekend's state election.
A likely change of power in Canberra this year will have little bearing on the makeup of WA's political and business leaders. Click through to see our updated ranking of WA's 50 Most Influential.
The state government has confirmed Emily Roper as Director General of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, nearly two years after the last permanent head resigned.
Peter Woronzow has been formally appointed director general of the Department of Transport, one of five DG roles the state government has needed to fill.
The state government has announced four senior public service appointments but needs to recruit five new directors general, including at the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.
Department of the Premier and Cabinet director general, Darren Foster, is stepping down immediately, with senior bureaucrats Rebecca Brown and Sharyn O'Neill stepping into the breach.
The head of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has been accused of an “extremely serious intentional breach of parliamentary privilege” by a parliamentary committee chaired by Labor's Kate Doust for his actions during a Corruption and Crime Commission investigation.
