James Allan

Professional background:

Ph.D. in moral philosophy awarded in 1994 from the University of Hong Kong

Present Position: Garrick Professor of Law, University of Queensland, newspaper commentator

Previous Position: Professor of Law at University of Otago, NZ also in Hong Kong and Canada.  Practised law in Canada and England.

Select publications:

A sceptical Theory of Morality and Law, Ashgate, 1998

Sympathy and Antipathy, Peter Lang, 2002

'Jeremy Waldron and the Philosopher's Stone', San Diego Law Review 2008

'Paradox of Sovereignity', King's Law Journal, 2007

Research profile:

His primary areas of research interest are legal philosophy, constitutional law and bills of rights scepticism.  He writes for The Australian, Spectator Australia and Quadrant magazine and has published in all the main englich language legal philosophy and many constituational law journals

Home page

http://www.law.uq.edu.au/academic-staff/staff.php?nm=jamesallan&tab=

Terry L. Anderson

Professional background:

PhD in economics from the University of Washington 1972

Present Position: Executive Director of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA

Previous Position: Professor of Economics at Montana State University, USA

Select publications:

Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2009 (with Laura Huggins)

Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2009 (eds with Richard Sousa)

Free Market Environmentalism, Revised, New York, NY, Palgrave, St Martin’s Press (with Donald R. Leal

Research profile:

As an economist Anderson’s work has defined a new course for achieving environmental quality and helped launch the ideas of “free market environmentalism”. Private property rights encourage resource stewardship by harnessing market incentives to individual initiative for protecting environmental quality.

Home page

http://www.perc.org/staff.php

Ray Ball

Professional background:

PhD in economics from Chicago University

Present Position:Ray Ball is the Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago.

Previous Positions:  University of Rochester, the London Business School, the Australian Graduate School of Management, and the University of Queensland. Ball was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by the Helsinki School of Economics, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the University of Queensland, the University of London, and the University of New South Wales. He has been a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Independent Studies since 1996.

Select publications:

“An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers,” Journal of Accounting Research (1968, with Philip Brown), received the American Accounting Association's inaugural award for Seminal Contributions to the Accounting Literature. The award stated: "No other paper has been cited as often or has played so important a role in the development of accounting research during the past thirty years." This research laid the foundation for much of the modern accounting literature.

“Institutions of Innovation and Prosperity” Thirteenth Annual John Bonython Lecture Occasional Papers 58, Centre for Independent Studies (1996).

Research profile:

Ray's interests are in financial reporting and disclosure, earnings and stock prices, analysis of financial information, international accounting, market efficiency and the institutions of a market economy

Home page

http://chicagobooth.edu/fac/ray.ball

Jeff Bennett

Professional background:

PhD in Economics from Australian National University

Present Position: Professor, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University.Jeff is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and was President of that Society in 2004. He is co-editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Principal of the consulting group, Environmental and Resource Economics. Jeff is also director of the Environmental Economics Research Hub funded under the Commonwealth Environment Research Facility.

Select publications:

'Australasian Environmental Economics: contributions, conflicts and cop-outs', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 49(3): 239-242., 2005

'Defining and Managing Environmental Flows: Inputs from Society', Australian Economic Papers, 27(2): 167-183, 2008

The Choice Modelling Approach to Environmental Valuation, Bennett, J. and R. Blamey (eds). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar New Horizons in Environmental Economics Series, 2001

Research profile:

Professor Bennett has over 30 years experience researching, consulting and teaching in the fields of Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics and Applied Micro-Economics. He is currently leading research projects investigating the use of non-market techniques to estimate the value of the environment, the use of auctions to encourage land use change in western China and private sector conservation initiatives.

Home page

http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/staff/jbennett.php

Surjit S. Bhalla

Professional Background:

Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton, 1977.

Present Position: Chairman of Oxus Investments, a New Delhi based “hedge fund” and emerging markets advisory firm. Oxus was established in 1996 and in Sept. 1998, it became one of the earliest to obtain a Portfolio Managers license from SEBI. He has worked at the Rand Corporation, Brookings Institution and the World Bank as an economist; has taught at the Delhi School of Economics; and has  worked as a proprietary trader/strategist/portfolio manager at the World Bank, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Oxus Investments.

Select publications:

Devaluing Prosperity: Misaligned currencies and their growth consequences, forthcoming 2010;

The Old Order is Fading: Challenges from the Middle Class Kingdoms of China and India (also forthcoming, 2010)

Between the Wickets: The Who and Why of the Best in Cricket, 1987.

Profile:

Mr Bhalla is a regular contributor (over 500 articles) to Indian newspapers/magazines/TV on financial markets, economics, politics and cricket. Since Feb. 2009, he has been the anchor of his own TV talk/interview show, Tough Talk, on India’s leading news channel, NDTV.  He is on the governing board of India’s largest think tank (NCAER), and has been on the governing board of Gargi College, Delhi University.

Peter Boettke

Professional Background:

PhD in economics from George Mason University

Previous positions: New York University, Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He has been a visiting professor or scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the Max Planck Institute for Researchinto Economic Systems in Jena, Germany, the Stockholm School of Economics, Central European University in Prague, Charles University in Prague, and was the F. A. Hayek Fellow in 2004 and 2006 at the London School of Economics.

Select publications:

He is the co‐author, along with David Prychitko, of the classic principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne's The Economic Way of Thinking (12th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2009).

The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics (Elgar, 1994), and The Handbook on Austrian Economics (Elgar, 2010).

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (Routledge, 2009), co‐authored with Paul Dragos Aligica

Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (Routledge, 2001).

Research Profile:

Boettke seeks to develop a robust political economy research program that expands an understanding of how individuals acting through the extended market order can effect generalized freedom and prosperity for society, and how the institutional arrangements within which economic actors find themselves can shape, reinforce, or inhibit the individual choices that lead spontaneously to sustained economic development. Boettke is particularly interested in how these dynamics influence entrepreneurial activity in transitioning, weak and failed states.

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/

Eric Crampton

Professional Background:

Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University 2003

Present position: Senior Lecturer in Economics University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ

Research Associate, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation

Previous position: Lecturer in Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

Senior Fellow ZEI – Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn

Select publications:

'Robust Analytical egalitarianism: Worst-case political economy and the socialist calculation debate.' pp. 108-131 in D. Levy and S. Peart, eds, The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. (with Andrew Farrant).

'Market Failure' in Clark, David S., Ed., Encyclopedia of Law & Society. pp. 983-5. Sage Publications, 2007.

The price of everything, the value nothing: A (truly) external review of BERL’s study of harmful alcohol and drug use. University of Canterbury Working Paper (with Matt Burgess) The paper has drawn much comment and has been downloaded 1500 times from the university website.

Research Profile:

Currently working on Partisan patterns of grant distribution and linkages between voter preferences and economic outcomes. An economist who is interested in Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, Public Economics and Applied Economics.

http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/people/

Sinclair Davidson

Professional Background:

PhD in Economics for Royal Institute of Technolgy, Melbourne (RMIT)

Select publications:

Sinclair has published in academic journals such as the European Journal of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and the Cato Journal.

He has written extensively on taxation policy in Australia and is a regular contributor to public debate. His opinion pieces have been published in The Age, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, and Wall Street Journal Asia. Sinclair also has a great interest in Institutional Economics and Property Rights

Home page:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/sinclairdavidson

Harold Demsetz

Professional Background:

PhD in Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University

Present Position: Arthur Andersen UCLA Alumni Emeritus Professor of Business Economics.

Previous position: Faculty of the University of Chicago then the University of California.  He chaired UCLA' s Department of Economics and from 1984 to 1995, he held the Arthur Andersen UCLA Alumni Chair in Business Economics and Directed UCLA's Business Economics program.

Select publications:

Seemingly Altruistic Behavior: Selfish Genes or Cooperative Organisms?' Bioeconomics 2009

From Economic Man to Economic System, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The Economics of the Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries, Cambridge University Press ,1995

Research Profile:

Professor Demsetz's research is focused on property rights, the business firm, financial economics, and problems in monopoly, competition, and antitrust.  However, his most recently published article contributes to bioeconomics.

Home page:

http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/faculty/Demsetz.html

Denis Dutton

Professional Background:

PhD in Philosophy from University of California

Present Position: Professor of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Canterbury, NZ, Editor of Arts & Letters Daily. http://www.aldaily.com

The Art Instinct, Beauty, Pleasure and Human Achievement 2009, Oxford University Press

'Sexual Selection: A Revived Teleology'. chapter in J. Brockman (Ed.), What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything. New York: HarperCollins.  2009

Research Profile:

Denis Dutton works in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. His recent research is focused on Darwinian applications in aesthetics: the manner in which human interests, pleasures, and tastes are shaped by the evolution of the human species.

http://www.denisdutton.com/

Douglas Ginsburg

Professional Background:

JD from University of Chicago

Present Position: Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distrist of Columbia Circuit, lecturer in Law, Columbia Univerisyt, Visiting Professor University of Chicago Law School and University College London.

Previous Positions: Cheif Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Positions in the US Department of Justice, Office of Management and Budget and Professor of Lae, Harvard University.

Select publications:

'Original Public Meaning of the Constitution: Out of Exile', Vol 33, No 1, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2010

'Antitrust Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1967-2007' with L. Brannon, Vol 3, No. 2 Competition Policy International,  2007

'Comparing Antitrust Enforcement in the United States and Europe', 1 Journal of Comparative Law and Economics 427, 2005

Research Profile:

Judge Ginsburg has published widely in the fields of constitutional law and of competition policy.  In 2001 he received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Association for Private Enterprise Education.

http://www.law.chicago.edu/faculty/ginsburg

Hon John Howard

Professional Background:

The Honourable John Winston Howard served as the 25^th Prime Minister of Australia from March 1996 until November 2007.  He has been Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister.  Mr Howard led the centre/right Liberal Party of Australia for a total of 16 years.  He was a member of the House of Representatives for 33 years.  Prior to becoming Prime Minister John Howard had extensive senior experience in both government and opposition.  He served as Treasurer (finance minister) in a previous government and led his party in opposition for a number of years.

A conservative on social policy John Howard pursued broadly pro market economic policies in his time as Prime Minister.  During his period in office Australia experienced continued economic growth averaging 3.6% per annum.

In2008 Mr Howard was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia.  

H has also been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in Washington.  It is America’s highest civilian honour.

Wolfgang Kasper

Ph.D. in economics at Kiel University's Institute of World Economics, 1968.

Present Position: Emeritus Professor at the University of NSW, Australia

Continuing lecturing and researching free-market reforms

Previous Position: Chair in Economics at Australian National University then the University of NSW (AFDA). Previously  the German Council of Economic Advisers (1965-69), the Kiel Institute (1969-71) and the Malaysian Ministry of Finance (1971-73)

Select publications:

Economic Freedom and Development, CD-Rom IPN ‘Ideas for a Free Society’, 2006

Building Prosperity: Australia’s Future as a Global Player, Sydney CIS 2000

Institutional Economics – Social Order and Public Policy, Cheltenham, UK, E.Elgar, 1998, (with M.E. Streit)

Research Profile:

An economist in international finance, an advocate of free trade and free capital movements, the importance of informal and formal institutions for a free and prospering society, economic freedom and free international factor flows in Australia, New Zealand , Pacific countries and throughout East Asia.

Terence Kealey

Professional Background:

DPhil (PhD) from the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Oxford University, in 1982.

Present Position: Vice-Chancellor the University of Buckingham in the UK since 2001. He writes regularly for the national UK broadsheets.

Select publications:

Sex, Science and Profits, 2008

The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, 1996

Research Profile:

His biomedical research has focussed on the cell biology of human skin as well as studing the economics of science and higher education. His 1996 book The Economic Laws of Scientific Research argues that, contrary to myth, there is no market failure in science, and that it can be entrusted safely to the free market. His latest book, Sex, Science and Profits, published in 2008, argues that scientists spontaneously organise themselves in invisible colleges, thus ensuring that new knowledge spread rapidly within the market.

Home page:

http://www.buckingham.ac.uk

Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large of The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of The Australian. During 2010 he is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Paul holds a Doctor of Letters from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. In addition, he has honorary doctorates from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and from Griffith University.

Select publications:

The March of Patriots – the Struggle for Modern Australia, Melbourne University Publications, 2009

Hard Heads, Soft Hearts a new reform agenda for Australia edited by Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly, Allen and Unwin, 2003

The End of Certainty - The Story of the 80's, Allen and Unwin, 1992,

Presented a five part television documentary for the ABC on Australian history and character ‘100 Years – The Australian Story’ and wrote a book under the same title.

Research Profile:

Paul has covered national governments from Gough Whitlam to Kevin Rudd. During 2010 he is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is a 2002 Shorenstein Fellow from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has been a visiting lecturer at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and in 2006 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

Alan Charles Kors

Professional background:

Ph.D. Harvard 1968

Present position: Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA

Previous positions and fellowships included the National Council for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, and the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University

Select publications:

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 vol. set,) Editor-in-chief ISBN 0-19-510433-1 (2002)

The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses with Harvey A. Silverglate,  ISBN 0-06-097772-8 (1999)

Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series) with Edward Peters editors ISBN 0-8122-1751-9

Research Profile:

A specialist in European intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has a special teaching interest in the deep intellectual transformation of European thought, and a special research interest in the relationships between orthodox and heterodox thought in France after 1650.

In 2005, at the White House, he received the National Humanities Medal, for, according to the citation, "his study of European intellectual thought and his dedication to the study of the humanities. He has served on the Board of Governors of The Historical Society and on the Executive Committee of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. In 2008, he was awarded the Bradley Prize.

http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/kors.shtml

Chandran Kukathas

Professional Background:

DPhil in Politics at Oxford University

Present position: Chandran has a Chair of Political Theory at the London School of Economics

Previous positions: The Royal Military College, Canberra; Oxford; the Australian National University; the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy; and the University of Utah, where he held the Neal Maxwell Chair in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science

Select Publications:

Kukathas, Chandran (2008) Dilemma of a Dutiful Daughter: Liberty and Friendship in the thought of Kartini, in Robert Reich and Debra Satz (eds.), Toward a Humanist Justice: Essays in Honor of Susan Okin, OUP

Kukathas, Chandran (2008) Anarcho-multiculturalism: the pure theory of liberalism, in Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism, Berghahn Books

The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2003

Research Profile:

Chandran's work is in the History of Liberal Thought, Contemporary Liberal Theory and Multiculturalism.

Home Page:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/profiles/CKukathas@lseacuk/Home.asp

Deepak Lal

Professional background:

Deepak Lal is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles,usa, professor emeritus of political economy at University College London, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He was Research Administrator at the World Bank, a member of the Indian Foreign Service and has served as a consultant to the Indian Planning Commission, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, various UN agencies, South Korea, and Sri Lanka.

Select publications:

The Poverty of ‘Development Economics’ 2d revised and expanded U.S. edition., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty first Century, Princeton University Press, 2006

The Hindu Equilibrium, India c.1500 B.C. - 2000 A.D. Revised Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

Unintended  Consequences: The Impact of factor endowments, culture and politics on long –run economic performance”, MIT Press, 1998

Research profile:

Development economics, political economy, international economics, economic history, comparative economic systems, history of economic thought, political philosophy.

Home page

http://www.econ.ucla.edu/lal/

John Lee

Professional background:

John has a Masters and a Doctorate in International Relations from University of Oxford.

Present position: John is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, Australia and a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute He is also Managing Director of research & conferences company L21.

Select publications:

'The importance of India: Restoring sight to Australia's strategic blind spot' Foreign Policy Analysis, CIS 2009

Will China Fail?, revised 2^nd edition, CIS, 2009

'Putting Democracy on Hold in China', Issue Analysis 95, CIS

Research profile:

John Lee’s research examines the relationship between the Chinese political-economy and its foreign policy, as well as the response of countries in East and Southeast Asia to China’s reemergence.

Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald

Professional background:

PhD, University of Canterbury, 2010

Present position: Lecturer in Political Science, University of Canterbury, NZ

Select publications:

The Political Philosophy of Property Rights: A Critique of Contemporary Liberalism, 2009

'Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Struggle for Indigenous Citizenship' with Paul Muldoon)Australian Journal of Political Science 41, no. 2 (2006): 209-23.

'Self-Determination and the Politics of Indigeneity', MAI Review 1, no. 1 (2006).

Research Profile:

Lindsey’s research on the political theory of property rights examines the connection between the justification of political authority and property rights.  One particular area of interest is the theory of indigenous political claims.

http://www.saps.canterbury.ac.nz/pols/people/mcdonald.shtml

Kenneth Minogue

Professional Background:

Emeritus Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics.  Reviews in many journals ranging from the Times Literary Supplement to Quadrant.  Occasional contributor to radio and television, including being anchor to a six part television series on the free marker in 1986.

The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life, Encounter Books, 2010

Politics: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 1995

Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology, Transaction Publishers, 1985

The Liberal Mind, 1962

Research Profile: Specialize in the issues in the rhetoric of politics and moral sentiments.

James Otteson

Professional Background:

PhD from the University of Chicago

Present Position: Joint Professor of Philosophy and Economics at Yeshiva University in New York and Charles G. Koch Senior Fellow at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC, USA.

He previously taught at Georgetown University and at the University of Alabama.

Select Publications:

Adam Smith, Continuum, 2010

Actual Ethics, Cambridge, 2006, Winner of the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award

The Levellers, 5 vols. (ed.), Thoemmes Continuum, 2004

Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life, Cambridge, 2002

Research Profile:

Specialize in the history of modern philosophy, eighteenth-century political economy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of economics.
Home Page

http://www.jamesotteson.com/

Noel Pearson

Professional Background:

LLB and BA from the University of Sydney

Present Position: Noel is one of Australia’s most influential Aboriginal Australians, a lawyer, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York indigenous peoples.

Select Publications:

Various articles in The Australian and many other papers

Up from the Mission, Black Inc. 2009

Our Right to Take Responsibility, Noel Pearson and Associates, 2000

Research Profile:

The youngest son of Glen Pearson, from the Bagaarrmugu clan, and Ivy Pearson, from the Guggu Yalanji peoples, Noel grew up at Hope Vale, a Lutheran Mission in Cape York Peninsula.

The fight for aboriginal land rights has preoccupied the best part of the past 20 years, including co-founding the Cape York Land Council and negotiating the Native Title Act. While he continues to champion land rights, sharp focus has been applied to striving for wholesale Indigenous policy shift, notably in relation to welfare, substance abuse, child protection, economic development, and indigenous participation in the ‘real’ economy.

Home Page

http://www.cyi.org.au/director.aspx

Jason Potts

Professional Background:

PhD from the University of Queensland

Present Position: Academic Economist at the University of Queensland and at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Select Publications:

Creative Industries and Economic Evolution. Edward Elgar, (forthcoming)

The General Theory of Economic Evolution. Routledge.Dopfer K and J Potts 2008

The New Evolutionary Microeconomics: Complexity, Competence and Adaptive Behaviour. Edward Elgar.2000

‘Why the creative industries matter to economic evolution’ Economics of Innovation & New Technology, 18: 663-74., 2010

‘Open occupations: Why work should be free’. Economic Affairs, 29(1): 71-76.2009

Adam Smith Continuum, 2010

Actual Ethics Cambridge, 2006. Winner of the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award

Research Profile:

Specializes in the study of institutional, industrial and technological dynamics in an evolving economic order. My work centres on the application of evolutionary and complexity theory to market-based economic dynamics as an open-system growth of knowledge process. Recently, I have focused on the role of ‘creative industries’ and the role of consumers in innovation.mics.
Home Page

http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/pottsj.html

Peter Rathjen

Professional Background:

PhD from Oxford University

Present Position: Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne.

Publications:

He has numerous journal articles which can be found on the Home page link below.

Research Profile:

Professor Rathjen has a longstanding involvement in Embryonic Stem (ES) Cell research dating from postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford in the late 1980s. On his return to the University of Adelaide in 1990, he established a research program directed towards understanding the processes by which stem cells differentiate into functional cell types during embryo development. Intellectual Property from this work was commercialized with BresaGen Limited. The work continues within the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Rathjen was a founding member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Special Research Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development, and the Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC).

http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person3235.html

Suri Ratnapala

Professional Background:

PhD from the University of Queensland

Attorney at Law, Sri Lanka

Present Position: Professor of Public Law, T C Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.

Director, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law

Member of the Council of Academic Advisors, Centre for Independent Studies

Select Publications:

Jurisprudence, 2009, Cambridge University Press

Australian Constitutional Law: Commentary and Cases, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2007

Australian Constitutional Law: Foundations and Theory 2^nd ed, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2007

Jurisprudence of Liberty, Butterworths, Sydney, 1996 (with Gabriel Moens)

Research Profile:

Professor Ratnapala’s research covers the fields of constitutional law and theory, constitutional political economy and legal philosophy. He has published widely in these fields. He has received fellowships from the Institute of Human Studies, George Mason University, the Social Philosophy and Policy Centre, BGSU and the International Centre for Economic Research, Turin. Professor Ratnapala is a recipient of a Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Prize He has consulted with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and AusAid on institutional development in the Asian region.

http://www.law.uq.edu.au/academic-staff/staff.php?nm=suriratnapala

Steven Schwartz

Professional Background:

Present Position: Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University.

He has also served as Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University in London and Vice-Chancellor of Murdoch University in WA. He lead a national taskforce to produce a set of guidelines on university admissions under the Blair government. In 2005, he led a UK national taskforce for the Council for Industry and Higher Education. The taskforce produced an ethical framework for universities.

Select Publications:

Schwartz, S. Abnormal psychology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield (2000).

Schwartz, S. Classic studies in abnormal psychology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1993.

Schwartz, S. & Griffin, T. Medical thinking: The psychology of medical judgment and decision-making. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. (Italian Edition: Bollati Boringhieri Editore, 1991).

Schwartz, S. & Johnson, J. H. Psychopathology of childhood: An experimental approach. New York: Pergamon,1981.

Research Profile:

He was also elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, was an Academy of Science-Royal Society Exchange Fellow, a NATO Fellow, a WHO Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  He is the author of 13 books, more than 120 scientific articles and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.

Home Page:

http://www.mq.edu.au/vc

Amity Shlaes

Professional Background:

Present position: Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, Senior Fellow for Economic History Council of Foreign Relations and syndicated columnist for Bloomberg.

Select Publications:

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, 2007

Turning Intellect to Influence, coauthor, Reed Press, 2004

The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy, Random House/Harvest paperback, 1999

Research Profile:

Amity has done work on the relationship between commodity wealth, entrepreneurship, and international relations. Currently, she is at work on a general history of the 1960s and a biography of Calvin Coolidge that tells a story about the 1920s.

Home Page:

http://www.cfr.org/bios/7536/amity_shlaes.html

Peter Whybrow

Professional Background:

Studied physiology and medicine in University College London and trained in endocrinology and psychiatry in London and North Carolina

Present position: Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Director Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles

Select Publications:

A Mood Apart; The Thinker’s Guide to Emotion  and its Disorder, Harper-Collins, 1998

American Mania; When More is Not Enough, Norton, 2006

Research Profile:

An international authority on depression, manic-depressive disease and the effects of thyroid hormone on brain and human behavior, Professor Whybrow also lectures widely on scattered neuroscience topics of general public interest including seasonal depression, migration and the American temperament, and the evolution of market behavior.

Home Page:

http://www.peterwhybrow.com

Xiaonian Xu

Professional Background:

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Davis

Present position: Professor of Economics and Finance, China Europe International Business School

Previously he was Managing Director and Head of Research at China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) Prior to CICC, Dr. Xu has been a Senior Economist with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific, a consultant of the World Bank, Assistant Professor of Amherst College, Massachusetts and he was employed by the State Development Research Center of China as a research fellow.
Research Profile:

He received Sun Yefang Economics Prize in 1996, the highest Chinese award in the field, for his research on China's capital markets. His research interests include: Macroeconomics, Finance, Financial Institutions and Financial Markets, Transitional Economies, and China's Economic Reform.

Home Page:

http://www.ceibs.edu/faculty/cv/1112.shtml