EDUCATION:
Princeton University, Ph.D. Economics, November 2003
Princeton University, M.A., Economics, June 2000
Australian National University, B.A., Economics, First Class Honors, 1994
POSITIONS:
Professor of Economics, UNSW Business School, May 2024 – present
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia
Member of Department of Treasury Expert Panel on Forecasting Methodologies, 2016 –
Member of the e61 Institute Research Committee, 2021 –
External Consultant to the Department of Treasury, 2018 – 2022, 2024-
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Senior Economic Research Advisor, Reserve Bank of Australia, 2012 –2020, 2022 – 2023
Member of the Melbourne Institute Advisory Board 2017 – 2021
ARC Future Fellow, 2014-2018
Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne, April 2015 – April 2024
Richard Snape Chair of Business and Economics, Monash University, April 2013 – April 2015
Professor of Economics, Monash University, January 2012 – April 2013
Associate Professor of Economics, Columbia University, July 2009 – June 2012
Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University, July 2003 – June 2009
Professor of Economics, Australian National University, 2008 - 2011
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, April 2007 – June 2013
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Associate editor, European Economic Review, 2011 – 2022
Associate editor, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2015 – 2018
Associate editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010 – 2017
OTHER POSITIONS:
Member of the RBA Academic Panel, various times over 2019 - 2023
Super Global Visiting Professor, Keio University, May 2019
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, May 9 – 13, 2016
Visiting Scholar, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research,
Indiana University, March 7-11, 2016
Visiting Scholar, Central Bank of Chile, September 6 – 10, 2010
Co-director of CAMA Macroeconomic Theory Program, June 2009 - 2021
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, September 28 – October 2, 2009,
May 12 - 16, 2008, January 16 – 19, 2007
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July 2006 – June 2007
Visiting Researcher, CREI, November 2007
Invited Lecturer, Washington University, April 2 – 4, 2007
Visiting Scholar, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research,
Indiana University, October 5-8, 2010, March 26 -30, 2007
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, August 26 – 28, 2006
Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, April 19 – 23, 2004
Fellow of the Center for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
Fellow of the National Centre for Econometric Research, Queensland University of Technology
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia
ARC Discovery Project 210101204, 2021-2023 ($329,706)
ARC Discovery Project 210104327, 2021-2023 ($168,189)
ARC Future Fellowship 2014-2018 ($871,644 ARC, plus $200,000 from host university)
Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Princeton University, 2001–2003
Princeton University Fellowship, 1999–2001
J. Wallace Ely ’32 Fund Award, Princeton University, 1998–1999
Graduate School Summer Fellowship, Princeton University, summer 2001 & 2002
Economics and Commerce Honors Year Scholarship,
Australian National University, 1994
TEACHING
Short courses
UNSW Summer School, Expectations in Macroeconomics, Theory, Empirics and Policy December 2025
University of Virginia, Expectations in Macroeconomics: Theory, Empirics and Policy, March 2024
Bank of Japan, Expectations in Macroeconomics: Theory, Empirics and Policy, March 2024
Commonwealth Treasury, “Monetary-Fiscal Interactions: Implications for Stabilization Policy and Institutional Design”, July/August 2021
Commonwealth Treasury, “Inflation Targeting: Intellectual Foundations and Practice”, May 2021
Commonwealth Treasury, “Monetary-Fiscal Interactions”, May 2020
Keio University, “Monetary Policy: An Imperfect Knowledge Perspective”, May 2019
European Area Business Cycle Network Training School, “Monetary Policy: An Imperfect Knowledge Perspective”, University of Mannheim, April 2017
University of Melbourne
PhD Macroeconomics II, 2023
International Macroeconomics, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Introductory Macroeconomics, 2021
Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023
Monash University
Graduate Macroeconomics, Monash University, 2013, 2014
Columbia University
Intermediate Macroeconomics, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Senior Seminar in Macroeconomics, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Graduate Macroeconomic Analysis I, 2003, 2011
Graduate Macroeconomic Analysis II, 2005, 2006, 2008
Graduate Macroeconomic Topics Course, 2008, 2011
Ph.D. Student Workshop in Macroeconomics, 2003 – 2009
Advanced Macroeconomics Reading Group, 2005 – 2007