Our Leadership
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Lisa Cameron
President
Professor Lisa Cameron is the James Riady Chair of Asian Economics at the University of Melbourne. She has a PhD in economics from Princeton University, is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, the International Economic Association, a J-PAL (MIT Poverty Action Lab) affiliate and a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. Her research has been widely published, including in Science and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and featured in the New York Times and The Economist.
Areas of interest: Program Evaluation, Social Protection, Health
Countries: Indonesia, China, Timor Leste
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Shyamal Chowdhury
Secretary
Shyamal Chowdhury is Professor of Economics at University of Sydney and a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn. His research primarily delves into the economics of seasonal migration, the development of socio-emotional skills, and technology adoption. His work combines original data collection, lab-in-field experiments, and randomised controlled trials. He has conducted research projects in Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, and Nepal, and he has several completed and ongoing projects in Bangladesh. His research has been widely published, including in Econometrica, and the Journal of Political Economy.
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Astghik Mavisakalyan
Public Officer
Astghik Mavisakalyan is a Professor of Economics at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University. She is also a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) . Astghik’s research focuses on employment, education, health, wellbeing and preference formation, seeking to understand the role of the family, institutions, culture and external shocks in these areas. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and a member of the editorial board of the Economic and Labour Relations Review.
Our Members
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Ian Anderson
Independent Researcher, AUS
Areas of interest: Impact Evaluation, Political Economy, Health Financing and Health Economics
Countries: South East Asia, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Island Countries, Philippines
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Rashmi Arora
University of Bradford, GBR
Areas of interest: Finance and Development, Regional Growth, Financial Inclusion
Countries: India, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Thang Bach
National Economics University, VNM
Areas of interest: Gender, Governance, SMEs
Countries: Vietnam, Southeast Asia, India
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Sarah Baird
George Washington University, USA
Areas of Interest: Adolescent Health and Well-being, Global Health, Gender
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa, Bangladesh, Jordan
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Rajabrata Banerjee
University of South Australia, AUS
Areas of interest: Well-being and Mental Health, Crime and Corruption, Social Exclusion, Energy Poverty, Foreign Aid Effectiveness
Countries: Australia, India, South East Asia
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Victoria Baranov
The University of Melbourne, AUS
Areas of interest: Health, Mental Health, Child Development, Gender, Norms
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Pakistan
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Nadezhda Baryshnikova
The University of Adelaide, AUS
Areas of interest: Well-being and Mental Health, Environment, Child Development, Gender
Countries: Indonesia, China, Southeast Asia, Africa
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Diana Contreras
The University of Melbourne, AUS
Areas of interest: Social Protection, Child Development, Health, Program Evaluation
Countries: Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Pacific
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Ricardo Dahis
Monash University, AUS
Areas of interest: Politics, Environment, Labor
Countries: Brazil, India, Philippines
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Adeline Delavande
The University of Technology Sydney, AUS
Areas of interest: Expectations, Child Development, Health
Countries: Malawi, Pakistan, Solomon Islands
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Lakmini Fernando
Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, LKA
Areas of interest: Climate Change, Public Finance
Countries: Sri Lanka, South Asia and East Asia
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Esther Mirjam Girsberger
The University of Technology Sydney, AUS
Areas of interest: Labour, Public Policy, Gender
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa (esp. West Africa), South America
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Rohan Gudibande
Krea University, IND
Areas of interest: Empirical Political Economy, Economics of Conflict, Economics of ImmigrationCountries: India, Sri Lanka, EU, Switzerland
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Masyhur Hilmy
University of New South Wales, AUS
Areas of interest: Education, Migration, Political Economy
Countries: Indonesia
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Christopher Hoy
World Bank Group
Areas of interest: Public finance, Policy Perceptions and Preferences, Labor Markets
Countries: Southeast Asia, PNG and the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Maneka Jayasinghe
Charles Darwin University, AUS
Areas of Interest: Poverty and Well-being, Energy, Gender
Countries: Sri Lanka, South Asia
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Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra
The Australian National University, AUS
Areas of interest: Health, Population, Ageing, Social Inclusion, International Migration
Countries: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Pacific
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Ananta Neelim
University of Tasmania, AUS
Areas of interest:Behavioural Development Economics, Economic Evaluation
Countries: Bangladesh, South Asia, South East Asia
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Debdulal Mallick
Deakin University, AUS
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Xin Meng
The Australian National University, AUS
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Berk Ozler
World Bank Group
Areas of interest: Cash Transfers, Adolescent Health, SRH/Family Planning
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa, New Zealand, Pacific Islands
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Alberto Posso
Griffith University, AUS
Areas of interest: Child labour, Health, Poverty Reduction
Countries: Latin America, East Asia, Pacific Island Countries
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Christopher Parsons
The University of Western Australia, AUS
Areas of interest: Migration, Poverty, Conflict
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa (esp. Sierra Leone), Southeast Asia, South America.
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Paul Raschky
Monash University, AUS
Areas of interest: Political Economy, Conflict, Natural Disasters
Countries: Africa
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Dipa Sarkar
Queensland University of Technology, AUS
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Jayanta Sarkar
Queensland University of Technology, AUS
Areas of interest: Household decision-making; Health behavior; Education, Inequality
Countries: Southeast Asia
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Kompal Sinha
Macquarie University, AUS
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Emilia Tjernstrom
Macquarie Business School, AUS
Areas of interest: Agriculture, Competition, Climate
Countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Fiji, Indonesia, Nicaragua
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Russell Toth
The University of Sydney, AUS
Areas of interest: Private Sector Development, Development Finance
Countries: Southeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia
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David Ubilava
The University of Sydney, AUS
Areas of interest: Agriculture, Climate, Conflict, Prices
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, India
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Dong Wang
The Australian National University, AUS
Areas of interest: Development Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics, New Structural Economics
Countries: Australia, China, Pakistan
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Liang C Wang
Monash University, AUS
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Sarah Walker
University of New South Wales, AUS
Areas of interest: Culture and Institutions, Economic History, Environmental Economics, Human Capital
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Longfeng Ye
RMIT University, AUS
Areas of interest: Growth, Trade, Agriculture
Countries: China, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
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Haishan Yuan
The University of Queensland, AUS
Our PhD Student Members
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Kwabena Addai
Griffith University
Areas of interest: Health economics, Energy economics, Food Security and Nutrition, Poverty and Gender studies
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
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Lolita Moorena
The Australian National University
Areas of interest: Female Labour Supply, Education, Financial Inclusion, Digital Technology
Countries: Indonesia
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Mohammad Nure Alam
Macquarie University
Areas of interest: Health Economics, Social Protection and Disability, Labor Markets and Income Dynamics
Countries: Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom