ACE 2020 Organising Committee

Michael McLure

Michael McLure is co-chair of the ACE2020 Organising Committee. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Western Australia where he teaches the history of economic thought and public economics; and undertakes research into the history of neoclassical economics from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Erin Stone

Erin Stone is the current President of the Economic Society of Australia’s WA Branch. She is a practising economist, and is currently the Director of an economic consulting firm providing policy, regulatory and strategic advice to both commercial and Government agencies across Australia.

Silvia Salazar

Silvia Salazar is a researcher at Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University. She is an applied micro-economist specialized in development economics and time use. Her research focuses mainly on gender and indigenous inequalities in the labour market.

Peter Kolf (Chair up to August 2019)

KPK Specialist Advisory Services

Peter Shardlow

AnalytisDataScience

Abu Siddique

University of Western Australia

John Roberts

John Roberts is co-chair of the ACE2020 Organising Committee. He is Director of economics consultancy Strickland Park Economics. His sectors of interest include agriculture, water, tourism with a particular focus on economic and regional development.

Yixiao Zhou

Yixiao Zhou is Deputy Chair (Wealth) and a member of the Organizing Committee of the ACE2020. She is a currently Senior Lecturer at Crawford School of Public Policy, the ANU, and previously a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University. Yixiao teaches macroeconomics, and undertakes research into various topics in economic growth, including economics of innovation, international macroeconomics, and income inequality.

Astghik Mavisakalyan

Astghik Mavisakalyan is an Associate Professor at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University and oversees the Centre’s Focus on the States report series. She works in many areas, including cultural economics, political economy, development economics, labour economics, and gender and migration.

Mandy Hudson

School Curriculum and Standards Authority

Anusha Mahendran

Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

ACE 2020 Economics Committee

Ken Clements (University of WA), Chair
Yixiao Zhou (Australian National University/Curtin University), Deputy Chair (Wealth)
Silvia Salazar (Curtin), Deputy Chair (Wellbeing)
Michael McLure (University of WA), Deputy Chair (Other economics)
Ishita Chatterjee (University of WA)
David Christmas (WA Treasury Department)
Michael Jetter (University of WA)
Ingebjorg Kristoffersen (University of WA)
Jakob Madsen (University of WA)
Paul McLeod (Economic Research Associates)
Astghik Mavisakalyan (Curtin University)
Alison Preston (University of WA)
Anu Rammohan (University of WA)
John Roberts (Strickland Park Economics)
Duc Vo (Economic Regulation Authority)