Dip Education, B Arts, M Higher Education, M Commerce, PhD

Biography

Ross Guest is Professor of Economics in the Griffith Business School and Adjunct Professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). Before joining Griffith University in 1998 he spent 8 years at Monash University in Melbourne where he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1997.  He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Higher Education from Griffith University.
 
His current research programme is concerned mainly with the macroeconomic implications of population ageing in Australia and other regions of the world. He has published articles on this and related topics in, for example, The Journal of Macroeconomics, The Economic Record, The Review of Development Economics, The Journal of Policy Modelling, Oxford Economic Papers, The Singapore Economic Review, The Journal of Asian Economics, and Economic Modelling. He has received three grants from the Australian Research Council to support this work. He was an invited participant at the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit in 2008 on the basis of his work on population economics.

He currently teaches in Public Economics at Griffith University and for ANZSOG in their Executive Master of Public Administration where he is a Subject Leader. In 2008 he received an Associate Fellowship with the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. He is Co-Editor of the International Review of Economics Education.