Leading policy thinkers tackling Australia’s big economic challenges.
Co-Conveners


A. Abigail Payne
Director and Ronald Henderson Professor, Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, University of Melbourne
James Giesecke
Director, Centre of Policy Studies (CoPs), Victoria University
Steering Committee
Peter Dawkins AO
Victoria University
Craig Emerson
Ross Garnaut AO
The University of Melbourne
Members

Philip D. Adams
Victoria University

Stephen Anthony
Macroeconomics and University of Canberra

Amy Auster
PWC

Gary Banks

Jeff Borland
The University of Melbourne

Michael Brennan
Productivity Commission

Matthew Butlin
SA Productivity Commission

David Byrne
The University of Melbourne

Lisa Cameron
The University of Melbourne

Andrew Charlton
AlphaBeta

Karen Chester
Australian Securities and Investment Commission

Melinda Cilento
CEDA

Brendan Coates
The Grattan Institute

Michael Coelli
The University of Melbourne

Jeff Connolly
Siemens

Diana Contreras Suárez
The University of Melbourne

Mark Crosby
Monash University

John Daley
The Grattan Institute

Gordon de Brouwer
CEDA

Besa Deda
St George Banking Group

Janine Dixon
Victoria University

Peter Dixon
Victoria University

Michelle Dowdell
Australian Treasury

Chris Edmond
The University of Melbourne

Saul Eslake
University of Tasmania

Allan Fels
The University of Melbourne

John Freebairn
The University of Melbourne

Bob Gregory
Australian National University

Bhajan Grewal
Victoria University

Nicholas Gruen
Lateral Economics

Ian Harper
Melbourne Business School

Anthea Harris
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning

Peter Harris
Infrastructure Australia

Matthew Hassan
Westpac

Mark Horridge
Victoria University

Andrew John
Melbourne Business School

Roger Jones
Victoria University

Guyonne Kalb
The University of Melbourne

Stephen King
Productivity Commission

Paul Kofman
The University of Melbourne

James Lennox
Victoria University

Guay Lim
The University of Melbourne

John Madden
Victoria University

Rod Maddock
Victoria University

Jakob Madsen
Monash University

Leslie Martin
The University of Melbourne

Peter Martin
The Conversation

Ian McDonald
The University of Melbourne

George Messinis
Victoria University

Jim Minifie
AlphaBeta

Solmaz Moslehi
Monash University
Damien Mullaly
The Treasury

Carsten Murawski
The University of Melbourne

Jason Nassios
Victoria University

Xiujian Peng
Victoria University

Pradeep Philip
Deloitte Access Economics

Riki Polygenis
The Treasury

Ben Potter
Australian Financial Review

Paul Raschky
Monash University

Bruce Rasmussen
Victoria University

Maureen Rimmer
Victoria University

Brendan Rynne
KPMG Australia

Peter Sheehan
Victoria University

Helen Silver
Allianz Australia

Miranda Stewart
The University of Melbourne

Russell Thomson
Swinburne University of Technology

Julie Toth
Nous Group

Yi-Ping Tseng
The University of Melbourne

Sam Tsiaplias
The University of Melbourne

David Uren
Grapevine

Marcus Walsh
Department of Premier and Cabinet

Rob Waschik
Victoria University

Ian Watt
CEDA

Sebastian Wende
The Treasury

Roger Wilkins
The University of Melbourne

Jenny Williams
The University of Melbourne

Glyn Wittwer
Victoria University

Christine Wong
The University of Melbourne

Danielle Wood
The Grattan Institute

Mark Wooden
The University of Melbourne

Richard Yetsenga
ANZ

Yuting Zhang
The University of Melbourne