Steering Committee

Leading policy thinkers tackling Australia’s big economic challenges.

Co-Conveners


Photo of A. Abigail Payne
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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
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
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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