2021 Tasmanian Economic Forum - Where to Next?

ESA member

Non-member

Table of 8
(single transaction)

Early bird tickets
(closing 21 November)

$70

$110

$560

Regular tickets
(closing 28 November)

$80

$120

$600

Student tickets
(use code "STUDENT")

$40

$40

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Saul Eslake has a First Class Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania. After graduating he worked for the Federal Treasury in Canberra, and subsequently in the Australian financial markets, including as Chief Economist at ANZ Bank (1995-2009) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia (2011-2015). Since June 2015 he has been running his own economics consultancy business, Corinna Economic Advisory, from Hobart. He is also a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania, a non-executive director of the Macquarie Point Development Corporation, and a member of the Advisory Panels to the Australian Taxation Office’s “Tax Gap” project, the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office, and the Tasmanian Division of the Salvation Army.

Don Challen AM FAICD, FCA, FCPA, FIPAA is Chair of the Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council. Secretary of the Department of Treasury and Finance between 1993 and 2010, he is Chairman of the Motor Accidents Insurance Board and of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and a Senior Adviser with Flagstaff Partners. He has extensive experience as a non-executive director and consultant. The Economic Society honoured him with Life Membership in 2013.

Mala Raghavan is the Head of Discipline (Economics) at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, a Research Associate of CAMA, ANU, and she holds a PhD in Econometrics from Monash University. Mala's research and teaching interests are in Macroeconomic Policies, Monetary Economics and International Economics, with a particular focus on Asian and Emerging small open economies. Recently, she co-authored a book titled "China and ASEAN: Pivoting Trade and Shock Transmission".

Cedric Hodges has led the national Deloitte Access Economics’ computable  general equilibrium (CGE) modelling team for five years delivering over 300 projects, including many on the proposed delivery of major infrastructure  projects. He has over a decade of experience in economic modelling and  policy, having built a stylised CGE model with endogenous technical change as part of his 2009 honours thesis before working in the Commonwealth Treasury’s modelling team for over five years. As part of the Commonwealth Treasury team, he helped develop their in-house CGE model and delivered the modelling behind government climate change policy (a carbon price). He has co-authored conference papers and presented at academic conferences on the topic of regional economic impact modelling. In addition to his work with Deloitte and the Treasury, Cedric is currently completing his PhD at ANU, analysing the potential impacts of a global and national transition to net-zero on Australia’s thermal coal industry and the regions where it is concentrated.

Hamish Burrell joined Deloitte Access Economics in 2020 after completing a Bachelor of Economics with Honours from the University of Tasmania. He works on a diverse range of projects as a member of the Macroeconomic Policy & Forecasting and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling teams. Hamish has experience delivering economic analysis, commentary and skills and labour market modelling to a range of clients across the public and private sectors.

Lachlan Johnson is a policy analyst and research fellow at the Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania, where graduated with the University Medal. Lachlan has recently completed a PhD examining the roles of industry networks in regional innovation systems, and also writes on corporate tax governance, Tasmanian climate change policy, economics and labour demography.