Background

• Australian diplomatic service (Department of Foreign Affairs)
• Office of National Assessments
• Department of Defence
• Department of the Treasury
• Department of Transport and Communications (telecommunications reform)
• Bureau of Transport Economics
• Ernst & Young
• Department of Transport and Regional Services
• College of Experts member, Australian Research Council, 2006 - 2008

Research interests/expertise

• Cost-benefit analysis
• Government procurement
• Adaptation to climate change

Current projects

• Application of real options to adaption to climate change
• Costs and benefits of emergency food and water supplies in flood-prone areas (NCCARF grant)
• Program Manager, Master of Public Policy (Industry Strategy)
• Costs and benefits of standardising Australia’s railway gauges 1900 to 1950
• Cattle King Sir Sidney Kidman as climate change pioneer
  

Other associations

• Committee, Economic Society of the ACT.
• Chair, Canberra section of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, 2008-09.
• Treasurer, Oxford Society, ACT Branch, 2007-2011.
• Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Canberra.

Selected publications and papers

• Financing adaptation to climate-induced retreat from coastal inundation and erosion, 2011, with Bruce Chapman
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• 'Fiscal aspects of adaptation to climate change', 2010, chapter 5 in World Bank 2010, Climate change and fiscal policy: a report for APEC, Report no. 56563-EAP, World Bank, Washington DC; with Stephen Howes.
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• ‘Multi-Criteria Analysis: “Good Enough” for Government Work?’, 2009, Agenda, September, 16(3), pp.7-29, with Jeff Bennett.
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• Cost Benefit Analysis: a Practical Guide’ (2009) in G. Argyrous (ed.) Evidence for Policy and Decision-Making, UNSW Press, Sydney.
• ‘Managing the collection of evidence for decision-making’ (2009) in G. Argyrous (ed.) Evidence for Policy and Decision-Making, UNSW Press, Sydney.
• Getting real about adapting to climate change. Using 'real options' to address the uncertainties., 2008, Agenda, 15(3), pp.55-69.
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• A century of Australian cost-benefit analysis: lessons from the past and the present.  Office of Best Practice Regulation, Commonwealth Department of Finance and Deregulation, 2008.
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• ‘Get down to brass tacks on costs’, The Australian Financial Review, 18 December 2007.
• ‘Turning isolation to advantage in regional cost-benefit analysis’, Economic Papers, March 2007.
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• Managing Consultants: a Guide for Busy Public Sector Managers, ANU e-Press, 2006.
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• Editor and author Trading Greenhouse Emissions: Some Australian Perspectives, Bureau of Transport Economics, Occasional Paper 115, 1998.
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• ‘Kyoto: tradable greenhouse emission permits in the transport sector’, Transport Reviews, 19:1, 1999.
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• Facts and Furphies in Cost-Benefit Analysis: Transport, Bureau of Transport Economics, Report 100, December 1999 (authors David Luskin and Leo Dobes). 
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• ‘Back to the future: a long-term perspective on greenhouse gas emissions in Australian transport’, published in Hensher, D., King, J., and Oum T.H. (eds) 1996, World Transport Research: Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Transport Research, volume 3: Transport Policy, Elsevier Science, U.K.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Australian Transport in 1900 and 2000, Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics, Occasional Paper 110, April 1995. 
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• ‘Economic and social immigration policies: a microeconomic labour market perspective’, Policy, Spring 1990.

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