Research associates

Tom Kompas

Tom Kompas is the Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also the Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics (AC BEE), and has dedicated much of his recent time to public policy in Australia. Until recently, he was a part-time Senior Economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), a Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) project leader on biosecurity and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. In 2010, Tom was appointed to the Eminent Scientists Group (ESG) in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The ESG provides independent advice to the Minister on matters of biosecurity and risk analysis. In 2012, Tom took on the roles of  Editor-in-Chief of Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (APPS) and the President of the newly-formed Asia and Pacific Policy Society.

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