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Be an agent for change. Economists study the cause and effect of unemployment and inflation, economic growth and development, income inequality, public policy, and environmental management.

Meet our people

Professor Pauline Grosjean

Professor in the School of Economics at UNSW, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Professor Petr Sedlacek

Professor of Economics at the UNSW Business School, and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford.

Professor Anton Kolotilin

Professor of Economics at UNSW specialising in Microeconomic Theory and Information Economics.

Professor Gabriele Gratton

Gabriele Gratton is Professor of Politics and Economics in the UNSW Business School and an ARC Future Fellow.

Associate Professor Jane Zhang

Associate Professor of Economics at UNSW.

Dr. Federico Masera

Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of New South Wales and at the Resilient Democracy Lab.