[1] As a child, Morgan was an actor on shows including The Magic Boomerang and The Adventures of the Terrible Ten.
He was also featured in the film Funny Things Happen Down Under, appearing alongside Olivia Newton-John.
[6][7][8] A biography – David Morgan: An Extraordinary Life by journalist Oliver Brown was published in March 2019.
[9] Morgan's early professional experience was primarily in the government and the financial sectors, having worked both for the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. in the 1970s and the Australian Federal Treasury during the 1980s.
Morgan reached the position of Senior Deputy Secretary of Treasury during the Hawke-Keating Federal Government, where he contributed to government economic policy reform, specifically supporting the floating of the Australian dollar as well as financial deregulation more generally.
[2] Morgan is married to Ros Kelly, a former Minister in the Australian Federal Governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
These policies affected the regulation of financial institutions, corporate social responsibility, and economic reform.
[2] In 2008, Morgan chaired The Future Direction for the Australian Economy at the Prime Minister's Australia 2020 Summit.
[12] In 2014 he was selected to join an international advisory panel to provide input to the Australian Government Financial System Inquiry.