Image: Professor Warwick McKibbin AO, CEPAR Chief Investigator and Director of Policy Engagement
Professor Warwick McKibbin AO, CEPAR Chief Investigator and Director of Policy Engagement, has been appointed to the Australian Treasury Expert Panel on COVID-19.
Warwick McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modelling and the theory of monetary policy.
Currently, he is working with CEPAR PhD candidate Roshen Fernando on modelling the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy with a focus on the individual economies in the G20 and particularly Australia. Their research integrates epidemiological scenarios with macroeconomic outcomes to provide policymakers real time assessment of alternative policy strategies.
Warwick McKibbin has a Vice Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy and is Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.
Warwick McKibbin has a wide range of policy experience. He has been a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (2001 – 2011); the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (2005-2008); and the Advisory Board of the Prime Minister’s Taskforce into Housing Affordability (2002-2003).
He regularly advises international institutions, central banks, governments and corporations across a range of developed and emerging economies.
He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed academic papers and five books and is a regular commentator in the popular press.
Warwick McKibbin serves on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of China & World Economy, Japan and the World Economy, and Asian Economic Papers.