Dr John Simon

Dr John Simon is Head of Economic Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia.  In this role he has positioned the Research Department as thought leaders within the Bank who promote a culture of intelligent enquiry and analytical excellence throughout the Bank.  Prior to this he undertook a three-year secondment to the International Monetary Fund, where he led major analytical projects published in the IMF’s flagship publication, the World Economic Outlook.  This included work on monetary policy (“The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Has Inflation Been Muzzled or Was It Just Sleeping?), fiscal policy (“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 100 Years of Dealing with Public Debt Overhangs”) and capital flow management (“The Yin and Yang of Capital Flow Management”).  He was previously the Chief Manager in the Payments Policy Department of the Bank where he was involved in the design of regulatory frameworks for the credit card, debit card and ATM systems in Australia.  He has published numerous articles on macroeconomics, including on the ‘Great Moderation’, monetary policy and payments policy.  Dr Simon holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Thesis Supervisor was Olivier Blanchard.

Director and Founder of the Centre for Independent Studies

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

 

Sociologist, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Author of The New Authoritarianism

Director, Free Market Foundation, (Hungary)

Health Director, Health and BioSecurity, CSIRO

Director and Founder, Academy of Ideas, London, (UK)

Founder and CEO, Cognoscenti Group

Executive Director, The New Zealand Initiative (NZ)

Australian writer and columnist for the News Limited Press

Research Director, CIS

Programme Co-ordinator of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia

Chinese Canadian human rights advocate

Senior Research Fellow, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS

CEO and Founding Director, China Matters

Former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives and Cabinet Minister

Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Academic Culture, and Professor of History, Australian Catholic University

Cancer researcher and clinical oncologist, with Genesis Care Newcastle

Founder and President, Middle East Forum, publisher Middle East Quarterly Journal, (US)

Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne

Senior Research Fellow and Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS

Internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist, (US)

Head of Economic Research, Reserve Bank of Australia

Executive Director, CIS

Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)

UQ-CSIRO Chair in Personalised Nanodiagnostics, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland

Diplomat, American Board of Pathology

Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure

Liberal Party Member for Berowra

Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, Chairman & CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates Ltd based in Beijing

Director of China and Free Societies program, CIS

Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University, (US)