David Deans has been Chief Executive of National Seniors Association (NSA)

David Deans has been Chief Executive of National Seniors Association (NSA), the largest organisation representing older Australians, since 1991. In that period membership has increased from 36,000 to over 290,000.

Born and educated in Western Australia, David was heading a national construction company in Queensland at the age of thirty. David remained in the building industry for over twenty years, practicing as an arbitrator for much of the 1980s. From 1975 until 1991 he was a member of the Federal Government Indicative Planning Council for the Housing Industry.

In January 2000, David received the Centenary Medal for service to the aged-50 community.

In 1975 David was appointed a director of Later Years, which was to be the forerunner of National Seniors. He remained a director for nine years.

At National Seniors’s helm for 13 years, David is fully conversant with the issues facing seniors. He actively participates in many government, non-government and business sector committees focussing on areas such as age discrimination, dementia, unemployment, crimes against older people, banking services, retirement income, housing, and health and aged care.

David is also Chief Executive-elect of the organisation which will be formed from the merger of National Seniors and the Councils on the Ageing (COTA) in July 2004.