Ross Guest

Ross Guest is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Griffith University and Teaching Associate at University of Queensland. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and a Principal Fellow with the Higher Education Academy.

He has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Melbourne.

His research program has been concerned mainly with the economics 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 Population Economics, 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 4 ‘Discovery Grants’ from the Australian Research Council, as 1st Chief Investigator, 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 is a former Editor-In-Chief of the International Review of Economics Education, and co-author with Stiglitz et al. of Principles of Economics, First Australian Edition.