Expression of Interest 2020 – Consilium 2019 – Presented by The Centre for Independent Studies

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Greg Lindsay AO

Director and Founder of the Centre for Independent Studies

Professor Warwick McKibbin AO

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

Associate Professor Salvatore Babones

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

Máté Hajba

Director, Free Market Foundation, (Hungary)

Dr Rob Grenfell

Health Director, Health and BioSecurity, CSIRO

Claire Fox

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

Dr Alan Dupont

Founder and CEO, Cognoscenti Group

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Executive Director, The New Zealand Initiative (NZ)

Miranda Devine

Australian writer and columnist for the News Limited Press

Simon Cowan

Research Director, CIS

Dr Paul J. Maginn

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

Anastasia Lin

Chinese Canadian human rights advocate

Rev Peter Kurti

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

Linda Jakobson

CEO and Founding Director, China Matters

The Hon Dr David Kemp AC

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

Professor Michael Ondaatje

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

Dr Mike Fay

Cancer researcher and clinical oncologist, with Genesis Care Newcastle

Dr Daniel Pipes

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

Professor Bruce Preston

Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne

Dr Jeremy Sammut

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

Lionel Shriver

Internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist, (US)

Dr John Simon

Head of Economic Research, Reserve Bank of Australia

Tom Switzer

Executive Director, CIS

Professor John B Taylor

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