Rod Mair joined DFA Australia Limited in July 2010 as compliance manager and was appointed as the Australian head of Compliance in February 2011. Rod came from Barclays Global Investors (BGI) where he was the regional head of risk and compliance. Prior to his ten years at BGI, Rod held senior compliance and regulatory roles at both Perpetual Trustees and the Australian Stock Exchange. He also spent four years at Pricewaterhouse as a senior auditor specializing in the managed funds industry. Rod has over fifteen years of experience in designing and implementing compliance and operational risk management frameworks, and has a strong commercial working knowledge of the Australian regulatory environment.

Rod is a certified practicing accountant (CPA) and has a master's degree in legal studies from the University of New South Wales. Rod also has a bachelor of economics in accounting from Macquarie University and is a member of the Australian Compliance Institute.