Dr. Alex Millmow was an associate professor in economics at the School of Business at Federation University Australia over the period 2010 until 2019. He is now an honorary research fellow at Federation University. Alex's research interests include the making of the Australian economic profession and the role of economic ideas in steering public policy. In 2004 he completed his doctorate at the Australian National University on 'The Power of Economic Ideas: The Rise of Macroeconomic Management in Australia’ which was subsequently published. Alex has also published over 50 journal articles Including the Economic Record, Economic Papers, Economic Analysis and Policy and the History of Economics Review. He is the current President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA). In 2017 he published A History of Australasian Economic Thought (Routledge: London). He had just published an intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist Colin Clark entitled The Gypsy Economist.

Dr. Khan is the Lead Economist at Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), specialising in Productivity, Innovation, Climate Change, Big Data, and Machine Learning. He has worked across industry and academia practicing and teaching development, econometrics, and innovation. As Treasurer he is committed to helping build and foster professional development opportunities and networks for early career economists.

Dr Saeideh Khosroshahi is a Regulatory Economist at Essential Services Commission. She has supported the delivery of various water and transport price review projects since 2019. Saeideh is also an experienced university educator and researcher. Her research on conservation tariffs and customers’ preferences have been published in leading international journals. Prior to joining the Commission in 2019, Saeideh was a lecturer at the La Trobe University and University of South Australia. She holds a PhD in water economics from La Trobe University and she is passionate about supporting young female economists and promoting their voices.

Julie is Chief Economist at PEXA Group. She has more than three decades of experience in economic research and policy development, working across Australia’s public, private and non-profit sectors. She has held senior economic research roles at Nous Group, Australian Industry Group, the ANZ Bank, the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission and other federal government agencies. Her research interests span macroeconomics, demographics, employment, innovation, productivity and socio-economic inclusion. Julie holds a Masters degree in Labour Economics plus Bachelor degrees in Economics, Commerce and Arts.

Dr Michael Falk is the chief economist for IP Australia where he leads its program of economic evidence and advice. He has a PhD in the management of technological innovation from Melbourne Business School, and a MA in publishing and communications from The University of Melbourne. Michael has over a decade’s experience in research, strategy and communications roles across government, academia and industry, including work on entrepreneurial strategy for Australian and UK digital media startups. He is an advisory board member of the Centre for Transformative Innovation (CTI) at Swinburne University of Technology and the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) at The University of Melbourne.

Anita Doraisami has taught Economics at Monash and Federation University. She has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and was Macroeconomic Adviser to the Ministry of Finance, Timor Leste.

She has consulted widely for international organisations and held visiting positions at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, the University of Malaya, the ANU and the University of Cambridge.

Anita holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Michelle was a VCE Economics and Accounting teacher for over 26 years prior to joining the Victorian Commercial Teachers Association as their Executive Officer. In her current role she delivers professional learning to over 3700 teachers of Economics, Accounting, Business and Law-related Education.

Dr de Silva is a Professor in Economics at RMIT University. He is an applied economist with several areas of interest including financial well-being, household/individual decision-making and local economies/communities. He has a strong track record of working with various government and private sector organisations.

Dr Meg Elkins is a Senior Lecturer in economics at RMIT University. She is a behavioural and applied economist with research interests in societal and cultural economics. Her work focuses on those on the fringes to support sustainable livelihoods. She is equally interested in applying behavioural insights to societal issues, particularly around behavioural messaging. She has worked on projects with the City of Melbourne, The Busking Project and is an expert consultant for the UK Behavioural Insights Unit Canva8. Meg is a member of the Behavioural Business Lab. She is a regular TV, radio and print commentator on behavioural issues and decision-making processes.

Benedict Davies is Principal Public Policy Adviser at UniSuper. He has experience in technical, product and policy roles and has degrees in economics, philosophy, tax law and health economics.

Alyssa is the current Victorian chair of the Women in Economics Network. She works with a passionate group of women to promote female economists and advocate for gender equality within the field of economics. Alyssa is a public policy economist with nearly a decade providing economic and public policy advice to Government, the not for profit sector, and industry. She is currently working as a Senior Economist at Greater Western Water, and has previously worked at the Department of Treasury and Finance where she has provided policy advice across infrastructure, social housing, and transport. She also worked at Deloitte Access Economics where she provided advice across several other industries including health, energy, and tourism.

Nitul works at the Essential Services Commission (ESC) in Victoria as a Regulatory Analyst. He has worked on utility regulation projects in the electricity, transport, and water industries. He has taken part in price reviews, tariff approvals, fee reviews, and regulatory investigations at the ESC. He has a degree in econometrics from the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining the ESC, he worked at different organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Kwok Yen Wong has broad international experience in a diverse range of corporate advisory and financial management roles, including treasury, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, strategic planning, corporate development and insolvency. He has been involved in corporate financial management and international business development activities in the Asia-Pacific region, which has led to various work stints in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and New Delhi as well as in Australia. He graduated with Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Queensland (UQ). He also holds a Master of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (now known as the Financial Services Institute of Australasia). He is a member of the UQ School of Economics Advisory Board and the UQ BEL Alumni Ambassador Council (Melbourne). He was the former Chair of the UQ BEL Alumni Ambassador Council (Singapore).

Buly Cardak is an Associate Professor of Economics at the La Trobe Business School. His research areas include the study of household attitudes to financial risk taking and the economics of education, focusing on equity considerations of the university participation decisions of students. He adopts a range of empirical techniques to work with large longitudinal household survey data. In recent work he has applied his expertise in household risk attitudes to the analysis of the attitudes and choices of sports fans with respect to sports betting and in understanding the impacts of financial market fluctuations on household risk tolerance. In 2015 Buly co-founded of the ESA’s National Economic Panel with Tom Chan. He previously served on the Victorian Council of the ESA from 2015-2019.

Ingrid leads Economic Policy at the Superpower Institute. She was previously a Senior Associate at the Grattan Institute, a PostDoc at Melbourne University, and a Lecturer at RMIT University. She has also worked on a UNFCCC Panel evaluating the Kyoto Mechanism's Clean Development Mechanism. Ingrid has Honours and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Melbourne.

Munirul Nabin is an experienced lecturer in economics with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Research- published more than 23 world renowned Journals in Economic, research areas are mainly Industrial organisations and development economics. Mainly Applied theoretical economist with policy implications and also do data analysis and lecturing44 Game Theory and Industrial Organization . Strong education professional with a MCOM (Hons) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Economics from UNSW. Achieved Deakin University Excellent Teaching Award as well as Faculty Excellent research award, Deakin University.

Dr. Rebecca Valenzuela is a micro-econometrician with extensive teaching experience and policy expertise in data-driven research. Her proficiency in advanced statistical methods allows her to model complex outcomes, predict trends, and identify causal relationships with great precision. Rebecca’s work is well-recognised for its robust analytical frameworks that support comprehensive policy analysis, for its rigorous approach to data analysis and policy impact evaluation, and for its remarkable ability to turn results into actionable insights. Her contributions have consistently informed evidence-based decisions, enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of public policies. 

Rebecca is currently an Executive Manager at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, where she leads strategic initiatives and oversees research projects aimed at improving family well-being and policy development.  

Dr George Rivers is an economist specialising in cost benefit analysis; legislation assessment; project/program evaluation and pricing.  Dr Rivers is also currently an adjunct faculty member of the Australia New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and an instructor in the Executive Masters of Public Administration–  for senior public sector officials. George has extensive experience in program evaluations, stakeholder consultation, cost-benefit analysis, productivity analysis, activity based costing and national competition policy assessments, consulting with various state and national government agencies.  Dr Rivers has been commissioned to deliver cost-benefit workshops on behalf of the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission (now Better Regulation Victoria), the Queensland Competition Authority and the New Zealand Treasury.  Dr Rivers was also involved in delivering innovation productivity workshops for the Department of Business and Innovation on ICT projects and brand value/productivity workshop for the Corporate Valuations Unit of the Australian Tax office.