Ben is a Principal Research Fellow at the  ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, with two decades of experience as an economic and social researcher in Australia. He leads ANU’s microsimulation modelling team, focusing on the tax and transfer system, and is the principal architect of the PolicyMod model used to analyse the distributional effects of tax, welfare and superannuation policy. His research centres on personal income tax, welfare, superannuation and housing. He sits on the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee, which advises the government on economic inclusion matters.