Image: Distinguished Professor Warwick McKibbin AO
CEPAR Chief Investigator Warwick McKibbin AO, FASSA has been awarded a Distinguished Professorship at the Australian National University (ANU), a special category of Professor that recognises outstanding research performance, demonstrated service to the ANU and the wider community and demonstrated international distinction.
Warwick McKibbin is the Director of Policy Engagement and the ANU Node Leader for CEPAR. In addition, he is Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU.
He is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modelling and has published more than 200 academic papers as well as being a regular commentator in the popular press. He has authored/ edited 5 books including “Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach” with Professor Peter Wilcoxen of Syracuse University. He 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.
Warwick McKibbin was foundation Director of the ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis and foundation Director of the ANU Research School of Economics. He 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.
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; and 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.
He served for a decade on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (the Australian equivalent of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve) 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.
Distinguished Professor McKibbin received his B.Com (Honours 1) and University Medal from the University of New South Wales (1980) and his AM (1984) and a PhD (1986) from Harvard University. He was awarded the Centenary medal in 2003 “For Service to Australian Society through Economic Policy and Tertiary Education” and made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016.