Scientia Professor John Piggott AO

BA University of Sydney; MSc London School of Economics; PhD University of London; FASSA; AO

Primary affiliation: CEPAR Director; Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney

John Piggott AO FASSA is Scientia Professor of Economics in the UNSW Business School. A former Australian Professorial Fellow, he has published widely in leading international journals on issues in retirement and pension economics and finance, and in public finance more generally.

His national policy experience includes membership of both the Henry Tax Review (2008-9) and the Australian Ministerial Superannuation Advisory Committee for five years from 2007. John worked with the Japanese government for several years from 1999 on pension and population ageing issues. From 2008-2010 he was Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School of Business. In 2018, he was awarded a Rockefeller Residency to undertake research into ageing and inequality in Asia. He was a Commissioner on the US National Academy of Medicine’s International Commission on Creating a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity from 2019 to 2022. 

At UNSW Sydney, John served three terms as Head of School of Economics, was Associate Dean Research for the Business Faculty for 7 years, and was Interim Dean of the Faculty for more than 12 months in the lead-up to its integration with AGSM. He was elected to the University Council in 2012, and re-elected in 2014 and 2016. In 2020, he was the recipient of the UNSW Business School’s Staff Excellence Global Impact Award. In 2024, he received the the UNSW Business School Staff Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award for Impact.

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