Image: Professor Warwick McKibbin AO, CEPAR Chief Investigator and CEPAR Director of Policy Engagement
Professor Warwick McKibbin AO, CEPAR Chief Investigator and Director of Policy Engagement, has been appointed as a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
CEPR is an independent, non-profit organisation which includes over 1,300 of the top economists conducting research on the issues affecting the European economy and collaborating through the Centre in the pursuit of policy-relevant economic research and dissemination activities.
Professor McKibbin has been appointed by the Centre’s Appointments Committee to CEPR’s Programme Area Macroeconomics and Growth. Research in this area covers long-run macroeconomic issues including economic growth, inequality, political economy and structural change.
Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modelling. He is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU).
Professor McKibbin has published more than 200 academic papers as well as being a regular commentator in the popular press. He has authored / edited five books and has been a consultant for many international agencies and a range of governments on issues of macroeconomic policy, international trade and finance, greenhouse policy issues, global demographic change, and the economic cost of pandemics.
He is an ANU Public Policy Fellow; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences; a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia; a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia and Pacific Policy Society; a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C where he is co-Director of the Climate and Energy Economics Project and President of McKibbin Software Group Inc.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016 for distinguished service to education as an economist, particularly in the area of global climate policy, and to financial institutions and international organisations.
Professor McKibbin served for a decade on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia until July 2011. He has also served as a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, and on the Australian Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia.
He was foundation Director of CAMA and foundation Director of the ANU Research School of Economics. Professor McKibbin was also a Professorial Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy for a decade from 2003 where he was involved in its design and development.