SEGRA 2010 SPEAKER PROFILES
Comments Off Mark Cully, Chief Economist, Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
The Contribution Migration Makes to Regional Australia
Mark Cully commenced as Chief Economist with the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship in January 2009.
Mark has a first-class Honours degree in Economics from the University of Adelaide and began his working career as a graduate economist with the Australian Public Service. He won a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled him to study at the University of Warwick and obtain a Master of Arts in Industrial Relations. He was appointed head of research on employment relations for the UK Government in the late 1990s, where he ran what was the world’s largest survey of working life, the results of which were published as Britain at Work.
Mark returned to Australia in 1999 to join the National Institute of Labour Studies as Deputy Director, and was then General Manager at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research for six years, running its statistical then research operations.
He was a speaker at the inaugural Adelaide Festival of Ideas in 1999 and chaired the advisory committee which prepares the Festival program from 2003 to 2007. Mark is the author of two books, and numerous articles and papers.
Assoc Prof Paul McLeod, Business School, University of Western Australia
Capital Flows In and Out of Regions
Dr. McLeod is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Western Australia and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian and New Zealand School of Government. He teaches business economics to MBA students and microeconomic theory, resource and environmental economics and public policy economics to third year, honours and Masters, students in. He also teaches microeconomics to the Executive MPA students at the Australian and New Zealand School of Government. He teaches the economics of gas pricing and price regulation in the China Gas Program of the Australian Centre for Natural Gas Management.
The Hon. Anna Bligh MP, Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Arts
Growth Management in Queensland
Anna Maria Bligh made history on 21 March 2009, when she became the first popularly elected female Premier in Australia. Prior to the election, she served as Queensland Premier from 13 September 2007, following the resignation of Peter Beattie.
Ms Bligh was born in Warwick, Queensland, on 14 July 1960. She grew up on the Gold Coast, attending Catholic primary schools and Miami State High School, before completing the last six months of her schooling at Nowra State High School.
She became Deputy Premier of Queensland in July 2005 – the same month she celebrated 10 years as Member for South Brisbane. As Deputy Premier she was also Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure, running the $33 billion Queensland State Budget and leading construction of the $9 billion South-East Queensland Water Grid.
Ms Bligh was formerly Minister for Finance, State Development, Trade and Innovation. Prior to that she was Queensland’s first female Education Minister, spending almost 5 years overseeing the most significant reforms to the state’s education system in decades.
The reforms saw the introduction of a preparatory year of schooling and requirements for all young people to be “learning or earning”. During that time she also had responsibilities for the Arts portfolio, overseeing construction of the Millennium Arts Precinct.
Following the election of the Beattie Labor Government in June 1998, her first ministerial responsibility was as Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care and Disability Services.
Dr Graham Turner, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Global and National Sustainability Challenges: how big should Australia be?
Dr Graham Turner is a senior research scientist at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra ACT, Australia. His work involves whole-of-system analysis on the long-term physical sustainability of the environment and economy. Dr Turner develops and applies the Australian Stocks and Flows Framework to create ‘what if’ scenarios quantifying sustainability challenges and exploring potential solutions. Past topics have included Australian agriculture, fisheries, transport, climate change impacts, water–energy systems, water accounting, distributed energy, and employment in a green economy. Current interests involve food security, environmental implications of immigration, and coupling physical and economic models of the national economy. Prior to joining CSIRO in 2000, Dr Turner was a policy analyst (Australian Defence Force Headquarters), researched ultra-insulating windows (University of Sydney), and undertook experimental and simulation research on industrial plasma physics (IBM’s T.J. Watson laboratory in NY, USA; and University of Sydney).
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