Professional Development Workshop: Professional Ethics for Economists

Paul Oslington is Professor of Economics and Theology at Alphacrucis College in Sydney and Honorary Research Professor, Centre for Religion Ethics and Society, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. He was previously Associate Professor of Economics at University of New South Wales, and held visiting appointments at University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, and Princeton Theological Seminary and University. He works on international trade and labour markets, the history and philosophy of economics, and is an international leader in the emerging interdisciplinary field of economics and religion.  He is a member of the ESA NSW Council.

Jeremy Thorpe, Sapere.  Jeremy's experience spans a range of diverse areas in both the public and private sectors, including cost-benefit analysis, regulation design and evaluation, program evaluation, economic impact analysis and competition analysis.  Before joining Sapere as a Director he was a Partner at PwC Australia, serving as Chief Economist and Canberra Office Managing Partner, and before that worked at the Allen Consulting Group, the Australian Treasury and the Productivity Commission.  He has degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Adelaide.

Gigi Foster is a Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Formally educated at Yale University (BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics) and the University of Maryland (PhD in Economics), she works in diverse fields including education, social influence, corruption, lab experiments, time use, behavioural economics, and Australian policy.  She was named 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economics Society of Australia and is Vice President (Academic) on the ESA NSW Council.

Michael Brennan is CEO at the e61 Institute which was born from a motivation to bring together problem-solvers from academia, industry and government to push the knowledge frontier so that we can tackle the big problems facing our society.  Prior to joining e61 he was Chair of the Productivity Commission.  Previously Michael was Deputy Secretary, Fiscal Group, in the Australian Treasury with responsibility for budget policy, retirement incomes, Commonwealth-State relations, social policy and infrastructure financing.  Michael also holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the ANU.

Matt Wade is a senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald. where he writes about economics, politics and demography. He was previously a foreign correspondent based in India for Fairfax newspapers and has worked in the Canberra Press Gallery as Economics Correspondent.    He holds degrees in Economics and Law from University of Sydney.