Who is Matt Kean, the ‘classic Liberal’ appointed Labor’s climate change tsar?

Matt Kean was announced on Monday as the incoming chair of the Climate Change Authority. Who is he? Crikey has the answers. 

Who is Matt Kean? 

Kean, 42, is a career politician who joined the Liberal Party as a teenager and was appointed president of a local Young Liberal branch as a 20-year-old in 2002. Three years later he attained a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney, where he was elected to the student representative council. He worked as an adviser to the Liberal state opposition leader John Brogden in his early career, and also had a brief