Who we are

Warwick McKibbin
Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the ANU College of Business and Economics. Prof. McKibbin is an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Economic Research in Health at the Australian National University. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney; a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., and President of McKibbin Software Group. He is a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and is a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. He recently served as a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia.

Prof McKibbin received his B.Com and University Medal from University of NSW (1980) and his AM (1984) and a PhD (1986) from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded the Centenary medal in 2003 “For Service to Australian Society through Economic Policy and Tertiary Education”.

Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling. He has been a consultant for many international agencies and a range of governments on issues of macroeconomic policy, international trade and finance, greenhouse policy issues, global demographic change and the economic cost of infectious diseases. Professor McKibbin has published widely in technical journals and the popular press including the book “Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy” written with Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University and “Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach” with Professor Peter Wilcoxen of the Syracuse University.