Warwick McKibbin
Warwick McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian economist at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more that 200 scholarly articles and several books and is internationally known for his contribution to global economic modeling. He initially studied at the University of New South Wales where he received Honors in both Economics and Econometrics and was awarded the University Medal in 1980. McKibbin then studied under Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard as was awarded a PhD in Economic in 1986. He is Director of the ANU Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis as well as an Adjunct Professor of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health. He is also the Professorial Fellow of the Lowy institute in for International Policy in Sydney and a non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC where he co-directs the Climate Change program. McKibbin is President of McKibbin Software Group Inc. He has been a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia since July 2001 and a member of the Australian Prime Minster’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council since 2005. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences at the age of 40 and in 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal “For service to Australian society through economic policy and tertiary education”.