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Dr Daniel Alai

PhD ETH Zurich, BMath University of Waterloo

Current appointment: Senior Research Associate, School of Risk & Actuarial, University of New South Wales

Research interests: Longevity risk modelling, stochastic claims reserving, quantitative risk management

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Professor Garry Barrett

B Econ University of Sydney; MA PhD University of British Columbia

Current appointment: Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney

Research interests: Labour economics, public economics and microeconometrics

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Professor Helen Bartlett

BA Newcastle upon Tyne; MSc PhD Bath

Current appointment: Pro Vice-Chancellor & President, Monash University, Gippsland

Research interests:  Healthy ageing; aged and community care; and policy implications of population ageing

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Associate Professor Hazel Bateman

B Econ University of Queensland; PhD University of New South Wales

Current appointment: Associate Professor, School of Actuarial Studies, University of New South Wales

Research interests: Superannuation choices; individual decision making and superannuation literacy; retirement income adequacy and policy design; retirement benefits and the governance; and regulation and performance of superannuation and pension funds

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Associate Professor Heather Booth

BSc London School of Economics; MSc University of Southampton; PhD London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Current appointment: Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University

Research interests: Socio-demography of ageing and longevity, and stochastic modeling and forecasting of demographic rates and populations

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Professor Colette Browning

BSc MSc Monash University; PhD La Trobe University

Current appointments: Professor and Director, Monash Research for an Ageing Society; Director, Primary Care Research, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University

Research interests: Healthy ageing and improving quality of life for older people, chronic disease self-management and consumer involvement in health care decision-making

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Professor Monika Buetler

Dip Math and Phys University of Zurich; Licentiate in Economics PhD University of St Gallen

Current appointment: Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Department of Economics, University of St Gallen

Research interests:  Macroeconomics, public finance, and political economics

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Associate Professor Peter Butterworth

BA(Hons) University of Queensland; PhD University of Queensland. 

Current appointment: Associate Professor, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment

Research interests: Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Mental Health, Developmental Psychology and Ageing, Social Policy, Demography.

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Professor Julie Byles

B Med PhD University of Newcastle

Current appointments: Professor and Director, Research Centre for Gender, Health and Ageing, University of Newcastle

Research interests: Role of health services and preventive activities, and treatments in maintaining quality of life for older people, and in determining physical, psychological and social factors associated with optimal physical and mental health of men and women as they age

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Dr Nicolas Cherbuin

BA(Hons) University of New South Wales/Australian National University; PhD Australian National University

Current appointment: NHMRC Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University

Research interests: The investigation of genetic, environmental, health, lifestyle, and personality factors which influence brain structure and plasticity throughout the lifespan particularly in ageing populations. Also, how cerebral structure and changes in structure relate to cognition and degenerative diseases.

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Dr Dimitris Christelis

Ph.D in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, B.A. in Economics, Athens School of Economics and Business

Current appointment: Research Fellow, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, University of Naples

Research interests:  Household saving and portfolio choice, microeconometrics, statistical analysis and imputation of missing data in micro data surveys, health economics.

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Professor Lindy Clemson

Dip (OT) NSW College of Occupational Therapy; B App Sc (OT), West Australian Institute of Technology; MApp Sc (OT) PhD University of Sydney

Current appointments: Associate Professor in Ageing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney; Head of Discipline (Occupational Therapy), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney; Team leader, Participation Safety & Ageing Research team, Ageing, Work & Health Research Unit

Research interests:  Ageing, adaptation and independence; falls prevention of older people; development and validation of assessments of environment, functional performance and daily life activity; physical home environment, person-environment fit; enabling participation: personal, social and community engagement; home and community safety; translation of research into practice; multi-methodology research - quantitative and qualitative methodologies

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Dr Loretti Isabella Dobrescu
PhD, University of Padua, Italy; MSc in Economic Mathematics, West University of Timisoara, Romania; BA in Economics, Nottingham Trent University, UK; BA in Finance, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Current appointment: Lecturer, School of Economics, University of New South Wales

Research interests: Microeconometrics, Economics of Ageing, Health Economics, Mathematics

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Associate Professor John R Evans

Fellow of Institute of Actuaries, UK; Fellow of Actuaries, Australia; MBA University of Sydney

Current appointments: Head of School, School of Risk and Actuarial; Associate Professor, School of Actuarial Studies, UNSW

Research interests: Investment management issues related to pension funds and financial institutions; risk management of financial institutions; and capital market issues relating to population ageing

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Professor Denzil Fiebig

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA); PhD, University of Southern California; Master of Commerce (Hons), UNSW; Bachelor of Commerce (Hons), UNSW

Current appointment: Professor, School of Economics, UNSW

Research interests: Econometrics and heath economics

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Professor Bob Gregory

PhD London School of Economics, B Commerce, University of Melbourne

Current appointment: Professor Emeritus, ANU

Research interests: Economics, Macroeconomic Theory, Macroeconomics (Incl. Monetary And Fiscal Theory)

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Dr Katja Hanewald

MSc PhD Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Current appointment: Senior Research Associate, School of Risk & Actuarial, University of New South Wales

Research interests: Risk management, pricing, solvency, and regulatory requirements for life insurers and pension funds; models to quantify risks related to longevity and morbidity; individuals' perception of mortality and longevity risks

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Professor Erik Hernæs

Cand. Oecon in Economics, University of Oslo

Current appointment: Director, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economics Research, University of Oslo

Research interests: Educational forecasting; education and earnings; unemployment; and the economics of retirement

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Associate Professor Elisabetta Magnani

Laurea Economics and Statistics University of Bologna; MEcon Yale University; Doctorate in Political Economy University of Bologna; PhD Yale University

Current appointment: Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of New South Wales

Research interests: Technological change, effects on employment, wages and employment arrangements; demographic and institutional changes, effects on labour markets; technological change, demographics and the environment; and sustainability, behavioural and institutional constraints

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Simen Markussen

Master in Economics, UiO 2006, Ph.D. 2010

Research interests: Sick-Leave

 

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Professor Annamaria Olivieri

B.Business Economics, University of Parma, Degree in Actuarial Science and Statistics, University of Florence, PhD in Mathematics for Financial Markets, University of Brescia

Current appointment: Professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics, Actuarial Science and Finance, Department of Economics, University of Parma

Research interests:  Valuation of the life insurance business, risk management for life insurance and pension funds, solvency for life portfolios and pension funds, actuarial perspectives of annuitisation and post-retirement choices in pension products.  

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Dr Kathleen O'Loughlin

BA Macquarie University; PhD University of Sydney

Current appointment: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney

Research interests: Ageing with a focus on behaviours and exposures across the life course and the effect of these on health outcomes in later life; occupational health, specifically the injury and rehabilitation of mature aged workers; and workplace practice issues related to health care professionals

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Professor Ermanno Pitacco

B.Business Economics, University of Trieste, Degree in Actuarial Science and Statistics, University of Rome

Current appointment: Professor of Actuarial Mathematics, University of Trieste, Italy

Research interests:  Multistate models for the insurances of the person, valuation of the life insurance business, models for the longevity risk, solvency for life portfolios and pension funds.

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Professor Pradeep Ray

PhD Information Technology, UTS, Sydney; MTech Electronics Engineering, IIT, Kanpur, India; BTech Electronics Engineering, BHU-IT, India

Current appointment: Professor, Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business; Director, International Initiative for ubiquitous Healthcare  

Research interests: E Health techniques and their applications in both home based and residential aged care settings

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Professor Elizabeth Savage

BSc Arch University of Sydney; MSc Econ London School of Economics

Current appointment:Professor in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney; Head of Economics Discipline Group, Economics; Core Member, Centre for the Study of Choice

Research interests: Private health insurance and health sector use; risk and risk selection; health system performance; behavioural modelling, welfare measurement and policy evaluation; payment mechanisms for health care providers; screening programs and access to health; and obesity

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Dr Renuka Sane

Ph.D. Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia

Current appointment: Research Economist, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai

Research interests: Household nance; pensions; micro- nance; rm nancing; public policy.

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Professor Martin J. Sliwinski

PhD Neuropsychology, University of New York; BA Interdisciplinary Studies, Georgetown University

Current appointments: Director, Center for Healthy Aging; Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State University

Research interests: How aging, health and disease can influence a person's ability to memorize, reason and concentrate. Specifically interested in linking micro-level processes (e.g., daily stress, affect, rumination) to long-term changes in mental, physical and cognitive health.

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Professor Noriyuki Takayama

MA PhD University of Tokyo

Current appointment: Professor of Economics, Institute of Economics Research, Hitotsubashi University

Research interests: Applied economics and microdata analysis

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Professor Peter Whiteford

BA University of Queensland; BLetters Australian National University; PhD University of York

Current appointment: Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU

Research interests: Child poverty; family policy; international comparisons of income inequality and poverty; comparative social policy and the welfare state; reconciliation of work and family life; lone parenthood and joblessness among families with children; social policy and the life course; social assistance policies; pension policies; social policy and income disparities in China; Australian social policy, especially social security policy

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Dr Tim Windsor

BA PhD University of New England

Current appointment: School of Psychology, Flinders University

Research interests:  Social cognitive development throughout the life course; relationships between substance use and health; driving cessation among older adults; and casual attribution theory

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