Jim Chalmers

James Edward Chalmers (born 2 March 1978) is an Australian politician who has served as the treasurer in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Labor Party, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for the Queensland division of Rankin since 2013. Born in Brisbane, Chalmers graduated from Griffith University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Communications, and later from the Australian National University in 2004 with a doctorate in political science. He worked as a research officer and manager for the Queensland government and the national Labor Party from 1999 to 2001, and 2002 to 2004 respectively, and held senior advisory positions in the staffs of Wayne Swan, Kim Beazley, and Morris Iemma from 2005 to 2007. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2013 federal election, winning the southeast Brisbane seat of Rankin. He was appointed to the shadow ministry by Bill Shorten in 2013, becoming a frontbencher in 2015, and later to the shadow ministry of Anthony Albanese after Shorten's retirement. Chalmers became the treasurer after the Labor Party's victory at the 2022 election.