Keynote Speakers
Kenneth Gillingham
Professor of Economics at Yale University
Kenneth Gillingham is an Professor of Economics at Yale University, with a primary appointment in the School of the Environment and secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and School of Management.
Warwick J. McKibbin,
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Professor Warwick J. McKibbin, AO, FASSA is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU).
Robert A. Buckle
Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington
Bob is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Since April 2019 he has been an External Member of the RBNZ Monetary Policy Committee.
Lawrence H. Goulder
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford and Director of the Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center.
Rhema Vaithianathan
Professor of Economics at Auckland University of Technology
Rhema Vaithianathan is a Professor of Economics at Auckland University of Technology (NZ) where she is director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics, a research centre that uses data analytics for social impact. Rhema leads a multidisciplinary team that works with health and human services agencies around the world to develop and deploy research-led machine learning tools. CSDA takes a human-centred approach to data-tools which help agencies serve their communities better. Rhema led development of the world-first Allegheny Family Screening Tool , a decision support tool for child welfare hotline screening tool implemented in 2016 profiled in The New York Times Magazine and Nature News. CSDA continue to develop similar tools for counties in Pennsylvania and Colorado. She also led the development and implementation of the Allegheny Housing Assessment tool, a machine learning decision support tool used in Allegheny County since 2020 to prioritize housing within the homelessness system.
