Daniel Mulino

Daniel Mulino (born 6 November 1969) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugural Member for the Division of Fraser. Since 2025, he serves as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services in the second Albanese ministry.

Mulino emigrated to Australia with his parents when he was 18 months old, having been born in Brindisi, Italy. His Australian mother had begun her career a teacher and his Italian father later became a psychiatric nurse in Australia.

His childhood was spent in Canberra, meeting his friend David Smith at Marist College, who would also go on to serve in Federal Parliament. The family were briefly in Sydney, and Mulino studied year 7 at the selective James Ruse Agricultural High School.

Having returned to Canberra, Mulino completed bachelor's degrees in law and arts. While working as a graduate lawyer at the Attorney General's Department and, later, the Department of Finance, he developed an interest in economics, and went on to complete a Masters of Economics at the University of Sydney.

Having won a place at Yale University, Mulino earned a PhD in economics, with a thesis topic "The impact of an aging society on capital deepening and international factor flows." Mulino is one of ten MPs in the 47th Parliament of Australia who possesses a PhD, the others being Anne Aly, Andrew Leigh, Andrew Charlton, Jim Chalmers, Jess Walsh, Adam Bandt, Mehreen Faruqi, Anne Webster and Helen Haines. He went on to teach economics, both at Yale and at Monash University in Melbourne.

Much of Mulino's career has been spent working in the area of economic policy.

For several years he worked at the Commonwealth Department of Finance and the Attorney-General's Department. He went on to become an adviser to Senator Jacinta Collins, then as Senior Economics Adviser to Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and Commercial Adviser to Victorian Treasurer John Lenders. He has assisted in the Expenditure Review Committee process on two State Budgets.

Mulino later became an economic adviser to financial services minister Bill Shorten in the Rudd-Gillard governments, working on reforms to flood insurance and mitigation strategies following natural disasters in Queensland.