Dr Ken Henry will be our guest speaker as part of the Emerging Economist Series. Dr Ken Henry has a number of roles at the ANU, including chairing the Institute of Public Policy, the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute and the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation.  He is also Chair of the Advisory Council of the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong and a member of the Boards of National Australia Bank, The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and Reconciliation Australia.  He is Governor of CEDA and a Council member of Voiceless.   Dr Henry held senior policy advising positions in the Australian Treasury from late 1984 until early 2011.  From 2001 to 2011 he was Secretary to the Treasury and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Board of Taxation.  In 1997 and 1998 he chaired the Howard Government’s tax review task force that produced the policy blueprint, A New Tax System.