Ian Austin

Dr Ian Patrick Austin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law. Ian is Member of the International Business program team and the School's representative on the University Library Committee.

Key Research Areas

• Australian Trade and Commercial Relations with Asia
• The United States of America – Asia Trade and Strategic Relations
• United State of American Banking and Financial History
• Asian and American affairs, particularly their interaction
• Asian and American corporate and strategic affairs: particularly how commercial and strategic interest intersect
• Banking and Financial Affairs in the United States of America and Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore)
• Trade and Business History
• The Global Economy and Trade with a focus on banking and trading institutions, histories, and crises.
• Hamiltonian Studies and Scholarship
• Australian Political Economy and Business sector– including Western Australian and Queensland specifically.
• Australian and The United States of American Political Economy and Economies
• Japan, South Korean and Singapore Political Economy and Economies

My current areas of research are: Western Australia’s Asian Engagement Strategy 2019-2030, Australia’s broader policy and commercial connections with Asia and the broader world, United States of American and Asian financial and trading institutions and systems, and, my long-term pursuit of Hamiltonian public policy and financial thinking.

Professional associations

• Academy of International Business
• The Australian Institute of International Affairs
• The Australia New Zealand International Business Association
• The Japanese Business Association
• The Australia New Zealand American Studies Association

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, 2001.
• Master of Social Science, The University of Queensland, 1995.
• Bacherlor of Arts, The University of Queensland, 1992.