Canberra Member Briefing - Short- and medium-term prospects for the global and Australian economies

Please join us for the Lowy Institute’s first event in its series of Corporate and Government briefings for 2015 at a roundtable luncheon with the Lowy Institute’s Program Director, International Economy, Dr Leon Berkelmans.

At the luncheon, Leon will lead a discussion on the short- and medium-term prospects for the global and Australian economies. Leon will focus on the Chinese and Indian economies, productivity in developed countries, and the effectiveness of current central bank measures.

Dr Leon Berkelmans is the Director of the International Economy Program and the G20 Studies Centre at the Lowy Institute.

Before joining the Institute, Leon was a Senior Manager at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he worked on the Chinese and Indian economies, investment, trade, and financial markets. Prior to the RBA, Leon worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C., where his main responsibilities were macro-econometric modelling of the United States economy. Leon has also spent time working in Kenya, evaluating the efficacy of different methods of giving aid, and has also worked as an economic consultant at the Centre for International Economics. Leon has a PhD in economics from Harvard University. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Australian National University, with a year on exchange to Oxford University.