Professor Ian Harper

• Doctor of Philisophy (Economics) ANU 1982
• Master of Economics ANU 1978
• Bachelor of Economics (Hons) University of Queensland 1977
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
• Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Honorary Fellow, Australian Institute for Business and Economics
• Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne

• 2016-current - Board Member, Reserve Bank of Australia
• 2016-current - Senior Advisor, Deloitte Access Economics
  
• 2012-current - Director, Ridley Melbourne
• 2008-2016 - Partner, Deloitte Australia
• 2014-2015 - Chair, Competition Policy Review Panel
• 2012-2014 - Director, Australian College of Theology Ltd
• 2011-2014 - Director, Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students Ltd
• 2011-2012 - Member, Independent Review of State Finances
• 2010-2016 - Member, Advisory Board, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Australia)
• 2008-2011 - Director, Access Economics Pty Ltd
• 2005-2009 - Inaugural Chairman, Australian Fair Pay Commission
• 2002-2008 - Sidney Myer Professor of Commerce & Business Administration, Melbourne Business School
• 1992-2002 - Ian Potter Professor of International Finance, Melbourne Business School
• 1988-1992 - National Australian Bank Professor of Monetary and Financial Economics, University of Melbourne
• 1985-1988 - Lecturer in Economics, ANU
• 1983-1985 - Head of Special Projects Section, Research Department, Researve Bank of Australia

• Competition Policy Review 2014 (current)
• Member, Financial Systems Inquiry (Wallis Inquiry) (1996-1997)
  

Books

• Economics for Life: An economist reflects on the meaning of life, money and what really matters (2011, Acorn Press Ltd)
  2011 Christian Book of the Year
• Christian Theology and Market Economics (co-editor with with S Gregg) (Edward Elgar, 2008)

Book chapters

• "Mergers "Down Under": An Australian Perspective on Mergers in Financial Services" in Benton E. Gup (ed), Megamergers in a Global Economy: Causes and Consequences (Quorum Books, 2002) pp103-110
• "Economic Rationalism: The Economist’s View of the World", in S Gregg and I Harper, Economics and Ethics: The Dispute and the Dialogue, Occasional Paper 71, Centre for Independent Studies, 1999, pp 2-17.

Relevant articles and commentary

• Is competition crucial to the health of the financial sector? You can bank on it (The Conversation, 8 August 2012)
• Christian Morality and Market Capitalism: Friends or Foes? The Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, Occasional Paper 87, The Centre for Independent Studies Limited, Sydney, 2003
• "Mergers in Financial Services: Why the Rush?" (March 2000) 33(1) Australian Economic Review 67-72

• Katie Walsh: '"I'm an economist because public policy matters for people's lives": Ian Harper' (Australian Financial Review, 10 March 2015)