Xavier Boffa
Xavier Boffa is a lawyer, public policy professional, former non-profit executive and Liberal candidate for the Southern Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council of Victoria at the 2026 Victorian state election.
Xavier holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne, and a Juris Doctor from Melbourne Law School. He is also a graduate of the Public Leadership Credential program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
In June 2020, Xavier was appointed as the first full-time Executive Director of The Samuel Griffith Society. Prior to this appointment, he was the principal parliamentary and portfolio advisor to then Victorian Shadow Attorney-General John Pesutto, and worked in the Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Congressman Ted Yoho.
Xavier has been published, quoted and interviewed in a wide variety of publications, including The Australian, The Age, the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian Australia, The Spectator Australia, The Saturday Paper, Workplace Review, ABC Radio National and Sky News Australia. His primary areas of research interest include constitutional law, federal-state relations, jurisprudence, legal policy and law reform, including in the areas of civil procedure, litigation funding and class actions.
Xavier lives in Hawthorn East with his wife Gabrielle and their Chow Chow. As a former employer, recent first-home buyer and an expectant father, Xavier is particularly concerned about cost of living, housing affordability and Victoria’s economic outlook. That’s why he is standing to bring his proven leadership, strategic capability and lived experience of the pressures facing small businesses and young families to the immense responsibility of representing Victorians in Parliament.
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