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Warwick McKibbin

Professor and Director, ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU) at Crawford School of Public Policy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Co-Director - Climate and Energy Economics Project at Brookings Institution

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  • Brookings Institution
  • Crawford School of Public Policy

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Crawford School of Public Policy

Professor Warwick McKibbin, AO is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also an ANU Public Policy Fellow; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences; a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia and Pacific Policy Society; a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C (where he is co-Director of the Climate and Energy Economics Project) and President of McKibbin Software Group Inc. Professor McKibbin was foundation Director of the ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis and foundation Director of the ANU Research School of Economics. He was also a Professorial Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy for a decade from 2003 where he was involved in its design and development. Professor McKibbin served for a decade on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (the Australian equivalent of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve) until July 2011. He has also served as a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, and on the Australian Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia.

Prof McKibbin received his B.Com (Honours 1) and University Medal from University of NSW (1980) and his AM (1984) and a PhD (1986) from Harvard University. He was awarded the Centenary medal in 2003 “For Service to Australian Society through Economic Policy and Tertiary Education” and made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016.

Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling. Professor McKibbin has published more than 200 academic papers as well as being a regular commentator in the popular press. He has authored/ edited 5 books including “Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach” with Professor Peter Wilcoxen of Syracuse University. 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 pandemics.

  • Economics
  • Macroeconomic Theory
  • Applied Macroeconomics
  • Public Economics
  • International Economics
  • Monetary Economics
  • Computational Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Health Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Macroeconometrics

Brookings Institution

Professor Warwick J. McKibbin has a Vice Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy and is Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also an ANU Public Policy Fellow; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences; a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia and Pacific Policy Society; a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C in both the Economic Studies and Global Economy and Development Programs. At Brookings he is also co-Director of the Climate and Energy Economics Project and a scholar in the Centre on Social Dynamics and Policy and a scholar in the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy.

He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2016 “For Distinguished Service to Education as an Economist, Particularly in the Area of Global Climate Policy, and to Financial Institutions and International Organisations” and the Centenary medal in 2003 “For Service to Australian Society through Economic Policy and Tertiary Education.”

Professor McKibbin graduated with First Class Honours in both Economics and Econometrics from University of New South Wales in 1980 and was awarded the University Medal. He also has a Masters and PhD from Harvard University in 1986. His internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling and the theory of monetary policy and has published more than 200 peer reviewed academic papers and 5 books as well as being a regular commentator in the popular press. He served on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 2002 to 2011 and worked at the Reserve Bank from 1975 to 1991.

He is currently on the Advisory Investment Committee of Whitehelm Capital and the Investment Process Committee of JCP Investment Partners Ltd. He is also an advisor with Dennis Family and is on the board of McKibbin Software Group Pty Ltd. He regularly advises international institutions, central banks, governments and corporations across a range of developed and emerging economies.

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Ph.D. (1986), A.M. (1984), Harvard University B.Comm., University of New South Wales (1978)

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