Real Incomes, Equality and Productivity 2015-25 and policy responses to improve real incomes, equality and productivity

Real Incomes, Equality and Productivity 2015-25 and policy responses to improve real incomes, equality and productivity

ESA NSW Branch is delighted to have special guests Dr Craig Emerson and Michael Brennan speak to us on Real Incomes, Equality and Productivity at an engaging panel discussion and networking event on Wednesday, 26 March.  

Following the talks and audience engagement on the issues, attendees will have the opportunity to catch-up over light refreshments.

This event is an in-person event only.

About the Speakers

Dr Craig Emerson (PhD in Economics, ANU) is an eminent economist with 40 years’ experience in public policy. Dr Emerson was economic, trade and environmental adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke. From 2010 to 2013, Dr Emerson was Australia’s Minister for Trade. Dr Emerson is also a former Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business. Currently Dr. Emerson is the Director of the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT University and Managing Director of Emerson Economics. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University’s Centre of Policy Studies.

Michael Brennan is an experienced Australian public policy economist. He is currently CEO of the e61 Institute – a non-partisan, not for profit economic research institute bringing frontier research insights to the Australian public policy debate. He was previously the Chair of Australia’s Productivity Commission, overseeing reports on Australia’s productivity performance and a broad range of economic and social policy issues, including the 5-yearly Productivity report Advancing Prosperity, and the PC’s inaugural report into progress under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. Before that was Deputy Secretary in the Commonwealth Treasury with responsibility for the Fiscal Group. He has also been a Deputy Secretary of the Victorian Treasury, and worked as a senior adviser and Chief of Staff to Treasurers and Ministers for Finance at the State and Federal level.  He has also worked as an Associate Director at PwC.

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