New Head of Department of EconomicsProfessor Russell Smyth has accepted the position of Head, Department of Economics effective 1 January 2009. Russell is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Asian Business and Economics Research Unit in the faculty. He is also Adjunct Professor at Dalian Nationalities University and North-Eastern University of Finance and Economics in the Peoples Republic of China. Russell has Honours degrees in Economics and Law from Monash University and a PhD in Economics from the University of London. He joined the Department of Economics following completion of his PhD in mid-1997 as a Lecturer. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1999, Associate Professor in 2003 and appointed Professor and the Department's Caulfield coordinator in 2004. For the last three years he has been Deputy Head of the Department. His research interests encompass Asian economies, Chinese economic reform, empirical legal studies, law and economics, migration and applied time series econometrics. He has published a large number of journal articles and book chapters in these areas. For a decade (1998-2008) he was Editor of Economic Papers, the policy journal of the Economic Society of Australia and a member of the Central Council of the Economic Society of Australia. He is currently an Associate Editor of the B.E. Press journal, Asia Pacific Law and Economics Review and Pacific Economic Review and sits on the Editorial Board of a further four journals. Russell is taking over from Professor Dietrich Fausten who will be retiring at the end of 2009 and stepping down as Head of Department at the end of 2008. |
