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Position/Role: Professor of Economics /Associate Dean, Research / Director AIPAR (Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research)
Schools/Unit: Economics
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Qualifications:
- PhD and Master of Science, University of London
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney
Research
Areas:
- Economics of Pensions and Retirement
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Computable General Equilibrium
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Public Finance
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Australian Public Policy
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LIfe cycle asset allocation
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Housing as a retirement asset
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Pension reform in Asia
Academic Profile:
John Piggott has served as Professor Economics at the University of New South Wales since 1988. He holds a BA from the University of Sydney, and the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of London. He is also Director of the university’s newly established Australian Institute of Population Ageing Research. Past appointments include research and teaching positions at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1992.
Professor Piggott has a long standing interest in issues relating to retirement and pension economics and finance. His publications include more than 80 journal articles and chapters in books, which have appeared in the leading international academic journals as well as in highly cited conference volumes. In addition, he has co- authored two books, both published by Cambridge University Press. The second of these, on mandatory pension saving, was released in late 2001.
For some years now he has had a policy and research interest in the evolving pension reform debate in the Asian region. For the last several years has been working on aging issues with the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, and he recently concluded an evaluation of World Bank assistance on pension reform in the Asian region for the Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department. He was earlier involved in a major project on annuity design for the funded portion of Russia’s pension system. Current external appointments include membership of the Governing Board of the Indian Pension Research Foundation and Scientific Advisor to the Frisch Center for Economic Research, University of Oslo. He is on the editorial board of the new Cambridge journal, The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.
His university administration includes two periods as Head of the School of Economics (1988-89 and 1997-2002), two terms as the Faculty’s Presiding Member (1992-1997) and more than 6 years as its Associate Dean Research (2002-2009). He has also served as a Director of the UNSW Professorial Superannuation Scheme (1998-2003).
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