Lecturers
Professor Petr Sedlacek
Petr Sedlacek is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School and an Associate Member of the University of Oxford, where he previously held a professorship. His research is in structural macroeconomics, with a focus on labour markets, productivity growth and business dynamism. His work has been published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and covers the nature of firm growth, the role of startups in aggregate employment and productivity, innovation and customer acquisition, and the macroeconomic effects of remote work. He holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2023-2027), has advised the European Commission on startups and R&D policies, and received the Starting Grant from the European Research Council (2018-2023).
Course: Macroeconomics of Business Dynamism
Dr Timothy Neal
Timothy Neal is a Senior Scientia Fellow in the School of Economics at UNSW Sydney and at the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response. His research spans causal inference, climate change and environmental economics, panel data econometrics, and neural networks, with applied work on the macroeconomic and agricultural impacts of climate change, the developmental effects of child labour, labour supply elasticities, and consumer behaviour during the pandemic. He received the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2021, and was named Australia's leading researcher in Probability & Statistics with Applications by The Australian's Research Magazine in 2026. Before returning to academia he worked as an economic consultant with Ernst & Young and Deloitte Access Economics.
Course: Climate Econometrics
