FREE LECTURE: UWA Business School & the Economics Society of Australia - Shann Memorial Lecture 2009

Saul Eslake’s address at the Shann Memorial Lecture will discuss some of the key aspects of the global financial crisis. He will also discuss the main policy responses to the crisis from an international and Australian perspective. In addition, the presentation will cover some of the challenges that Australia will face in the aftermath of the crisis.

BIOGRAPHY Saul Eslake joined the Grattan Institute as director of its Productivity Growth research program in August 2009. Before joining the Grattan Institute, Saul was Chief Economist at the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) for 14 years. He has also been Chief Economist (International) at the National Mutual Funds Management and Chief Economist at the stockbroking firm McIntosh Securities. Saul has a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania. He is currently a member of the Federal Government’s National Housing Supply Council and attended the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit in April 2008. Saul maintains links with Tasmania, his home State, as a Board Member of the University of Tasmania Foundation, Chairman of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, and as a non-executive director of Hydro Tasmania, Tasmania’s state-owned electricity generation business.