Image: Hazel Bateman, CEPAR Deputy Director and Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
CEPAR Deputy Director Hazel Bateman, Professor in the UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, has been appointed as Chair of the Scientific Council of the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar).
Netspar is an independent knowledge network, established in 2005 in Europe, to promote a better understanding of the social and economic impact of pensions, ageing, and retirement in the Netherlands through the development and dissemination of knowledge. Professor Bateman has been associated with Netspar as a researcher for ten years and as a member of the Scientific Council for the past five years.
Hazel Bateman is one of Australia’s leading experts in superannuation and pension economics and finance. Her research investigates consumer financial decision making especially as it relates to retirement accumulation and decumulation, as well as retirement product design particularly in Australia and China, and the taxation and regulation of pension and superannuation funds.
Hazel Bateman is a Deputy Director and UNSW node leader at CEPAR. From 2014 to 2017 she was Head of School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at the UNSW Business School.
She is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and has been a Chief Investigator on over a dozen Australian Research Council funded projects.
She has been a consultant on retirement income issues to a range of Australian and international organisations including the OECD, the World Bank, the Social Insurance Administration (China), APEC and the Korean Institute of Health and Social Affairs. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, an academic member of the China Ageing Finance Forum, the UNSW academic representative on the UniSuper Consultative Committee and an Advisory Board member of the Conexus Institute. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance and inaugural President of the International Pension Research Association (IPRA).