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Greg Cutbush is an economics consultant based at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at Australian National University in Canberra, where he is a Visiting Fellow. He has 15 years experience as an analyst in the public sector and 20 years experience as a consultant in the private sector. His main subject areas are:
- competition policy
- international trade
- infrastructure policy, and
- cost-benefit analysis.
He has a bachelors degree in Rural Science and a masters in Economics, both from the University of New England in Australia.
Before coming to ANU in June 2007, for two years Greg was a Vice President in the economics consulting firm CRA International. Prior to that, he was an economics consultant with ACIL Tasman and its predecessors (1988-2005). His earlier positions have included Assistant Commissioner at the Industries Assistance Commission (where he worked almost continuously from 1975 to 1988), Economist in the Agricultural Policy Division of the OECD in Paris (from 1979 to 1981) and Visiting Economist at Australia’s main anti-trust agency, the ACCC (for six months in 1995).
In Australia, where Greg has undertaken most of his consulting, his work has covered competition issues associated with all the key forms of infrastructure – roads, rail, ports, electricity, gas, telecommunications, spectrum licensing, airports, irrigation & urban water networks, bank settlement systems and legal & geographic data bases. Also in the area of competition policy, he has prepared expert witness statements for courts cases on subjects as diverse as petrol retailing, diet-milk, pathology services, irrigation entitlements and fishing rights.
He has published widely – on trade policy, uranium mining, airports, defence, health & aged care, spectrum allocation and racing. Greg’s most recent domestic consulting subjects have related to health & aged care, communications, conservation and bio-security.
His broad professional career includes a period in 2001-2002 as a member of a Commonwealth Ministerial Advisory Panel on aged care and a term as President of the ACT branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. He remains a member of AARES and of the Australian Economics Society. He is also a member of the Tasman Transparency Group, a group of 10 Australian and New Zealand business associations and trade experts which works on high level trade policy issues (www.tasmantransparencygroup.com).
Greg’s international experience includes:
- three years with the OECD’s Agricultural Policy division in Paris from 1979 to 1981;
- numerous consultancies since 1990 in New Zealand, mainly for the New Zealand Business Roundtable but also for the international milk company Fonterra and for public agencies such as the Commerce Commission:
- brief periods with a UN agency in Kenya in 1973 and a consulting company in the UK in 1974.
Greg’s aid agency assignments since the early-1980s have included:
- World Bank assignments in the Ivory Coast 1983; Nigeria 1987; Ghana 1988; Zimbabwe 1995; Madagascar 1996; Ethiopia 1997, 1998; and Laos 2004
- Asian Development Bank assignments in Indonesia 1988, 1989, 1990
- an Australian Government assignment in India 1992-93
- an Australian Dairy Corporation assignment in India 1998 and
- a National Centre for Development Studies at Australian National University assignment on Indo-china (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) 1989.
A more detailed curriculum vitae can be provided upon request. Greg can be contacted by phone on 02- 61258555 (office) or on 0404 822305 (mobile).
Contact Details
| Telephone: | 61 2 6125 6555 |
| Fax: | 61 2 6125 8448 |
| Email: | greg.cutbush@anu.edu.au |
| Mailing address: | Crawford School of Economics and Government , The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia |
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