Image: Professor Warwick McKibbin, ANU
CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Warwick McKibbin has been appointed as inaugural Senior Academic Fellow at the e61 Institute.
The e61 Institute is an Australian private, non-profit, non-partisan organisation dedicated to facilitating the production and dissemination of state-of-the-art research in economics and other related social sciences. The goal of the institute is to provide support for data-driven and theoretical analyses on economic issues; to communicate research findings among academics, public policy makers, and private sector decision-makers in Australia and overseas; and to foster collaboration in order to build a world-class network of economic researchers.
Professor Warwick McKibbin AO, FASSA is Director of Policy Engagement and ANU Node Leader in CEPAR and a Distinguished Professor of Economics and 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). He is also Director of Research at McKibbin Software Group Pty Ltd.
Professor McKibbin is a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia; a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia and Pacific Policy Society; a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C (in the Center on Regulation and Markets and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy).
He was awarded 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” and the Centenary medal in 2003 “For Service to Australian Society through Economic Policy and Tertiary Education”.
Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling, the theory of monetary policy, climate change policy and economic modeling of pandemics. He has published more than 240 peer reviewed academic papers and 6 books as well as being a regular commentator in the popular press. He served on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 2001 to 2011 and worked at the Reserve Bank from 1975 to 1991. He regularly advises international institutions, Central Banks, governments and corporations across a range of developed and emerging economies.