Professor Bruce Preston joined the University of Melbourne in 2015. Prior to this, he held positions at Monash University (Richard Snape Chair) and Columbia University. He is currently a Senior Economic Research Advisor to the Reserve Bank of Australia and consultant to the Federal Department of Treasury. He was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2014-2018.

Bruce earned a PhD in Economics from Princeton University and is an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review. His research primarily concerns monetary and fiscal policy. He has published in leading international journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Econometrics.