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Professor John Quiggin, Director
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Professor John Quiggin is a Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the
University of Queensland. Professor Quiggin is prominent both as a research economist and
as a commentator on Australian economic policy. He has produced nearly 1000 publications,
including five books and over 300 journal articles and book chapters, in fields including
environmental economics, risk analysis, production economics, and the theory of economic
growth. He has also written on policy topics including climate change, micro-economic
reform, privatisation, employment policy and the management of the Murray-Darling river
system.
Professor Quiggin has been an active contributor to Australian public debate in a wide
range of media. He is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review, to which
he also contributes review and feature articles. He frequently comments on policy issues
for radio and TV. He was one of the first Australian academics to present publications on
a website (now at http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin). In 2002, he commenced
publication of a weblog (now at http://johnquiggin.com) providing daily comments on a
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David Adamson, Research Officer
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David's career has included time at the CRC for Tropical Pest Management (1994-97), and RDE Connections (1997-2000), with time spent at Resource Evaluation Services (2000-04) as a director. David has expertise in the cost benefit analysis of research and development programs, and has interests in impact assessment of agricultural pest management issues and quarantine risk analysis. He has worked on the Excel version of the Murray-Darling Basin model and has general experience in Microsoft Excel model development.
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Dr Liam Wagner, UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Liam Wagner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He was awarded his PhD thesis in May 2008 in mathematics at the University of Queensland examining a variety of topics in mathematical physics. He has previously worked as a Trading Analyst in the energy industry, providing advice on risk, while also trading an Open Cycle Gas Turbine power station. While in the energy industry Liam also performed analysis on the impending carbon economy and its affects on electricity generators. His current research intersts includes analysis of the National Emissions Trading Scheme, impact of climate change on the Snoyw Hydro Scheme and the Murray-Darling Basin.
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Peggy Schrobback, Research Assistant
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Peggy Schrobback joined the team in November 2007. From her prior work in the development sector, she brings in extensive experience in agriculture and resource management. Her main focus in our team is on modelling the impact of climate change on biodiversity and farm production systems using different bio-economic valuation techniques. She is also involved in a project on the simulation of climate change scenarios for aquaculture production systems.
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Sarah Chambers, Reseach Assistant
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Sarah Chambers’ interests include bio-economic modeling of landscape systems, focusing on the value of water quality improvements from environmental flows. She is also involved in state-contingent analysis of production systems.
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Nancy Wallace, Editorial Officer
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Nancy Wallace provides editorial and bibliographic expertise as well as expertise in document management, research administration and reporting.
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Honorary Staff
Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Honorary Research Fellow
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Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Ph.D., is working part-time on this project on
secondment from his full-time position as Section Head of Climate Adaptation
at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). His
research encompasses economic, environmental and social aspects of resource
management and focuses on using integrated modelling tools that link
scientific data with economic frameworks to facilitate learning and problem
solving. He received the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics
Society Ph.D award in 2001 for bioeconomic modelling combining mathematical
programming and choice modelling. He has published widely on various
resource policy issues including water, land use planning, land degradation
and the use of choice modelling and geographical information systems for
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Former Staff
Nanni Concu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Giovanni B. (Nanni) Concu was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He also holds the position of External Researcher with the Universita’ di Sassari (IT). Nanni completed his doctorate in January 2005 at the University of Western Australia. His thesis used environmental valuation techniques (Choice Modelling and Contingent Valuation) to identify the relevant markets for public goods and determine how individuals’ willingness to pay is affected by distance. He has taught environmental economics at the Universita’ di Sassari (IT) for several years and has collaborated to several research projects at the Department di Economics, Entrepreneurship and Regulation (DEIR). He is presently part of a DEIR research team working on an EU funded project on the environmental and cultural impacts of tourism the Mediterranean regions. With the RSMG, he was working on designing a valuation study on the Queensland’s Vegetation Management Act 2004. He is also developed a GIS platform to integrate biophysical and economic data to map Queensland Murray-Darling Basin vegetation according to its market and non-market values.
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Mark Neal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Mark Neal was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney, examining the economics of New Zealand dairy production through the optimisation of a whole-farm model. Advanced techniques including evolutionary algorithms and distributed computing were used in the optimisation approach. He has previously worked in Canberra at the Productivity Commission, the Australian Government's principal review and advisory body on microeconomic policy and regulation. His current work includes analysing the potential costs of regulation designed to improve environmental outcomes and the optimal input choice for a range of farm systems.
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Tyron Venn, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Tyron Venn’s fields of research include natural resource and environmental
economics, development economics and forestry science. His research interests
include the economics of forestry, market and non-market valuation of ecosystem
services, socio-economic evaluation of the management of natural resources,
and the property rights of indigenous Australians. In June 2005, Dr Venn resigned to take up an appointment at the University of Montana.
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