Steve Blume

Member AICD, Member ACS
Senior Fellow - Regulation & Environment Policy
Steve Blume is a senior adviser to Macroeconomics on regulation and environmental policy and impact assessments. He is former senior staffer for Kim Beasley MP (Leader of the Federal Opposition) and Bob McMullan MP (Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Finance). He has a distinguished career in managing policy implementation and program design in both the public and private sector and in commercial IT. His research interests include climate change and management of organisational change. He provides guidance for Macroeconomics on regulatory issues and environmental policy and impact assessments.
 

Nilss Olekalns

BEc Hons (Adelaide), M.Ec ANU, M.A. Western Ontario, PhD (La Trobe)
Senior Fellow - Macroeconomics and Public Economics
Nilss Olekalns is a senior adviser to Macroeconomics on macroeconomic theory and public choice economics. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne.

He has numerous published articles in leading journals on various topics including fiscal policy, unemployment, interest rates, inflation, commodity prices, and the consumption of addictive goods.
 

Lesley M. Russell

BSc (Hons) Tasmania, BA ANU, PhD in Biochemistry, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU
Senior Fellow - Health Policy
Dr Russell is a senior adviser to Macroeconomics on health economics and policy including program analysis. She is the inaugural Menzies Foundation Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy which is co-located at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. She is also actively involved in health policy research, analysis and commentary across a wide range of issues and a number of collaborations. Most recently Dr Russell was Policy Advisor to the Shadow Minister for Health and Manager of Opposition Business in the House, Julia Gillard MP and to the Leader of the Federal Opposition, the Hon Simon Crean, MP.
 

Robert Jansen

B.A. Hons. (Flinders), Ph.D. (ANU)
Research Fellow - Public Sector Management
Robert Jansen is an adviser to Macroeconomics on public sector change management as well as not-for-profit business administration. He is former Treasury officer and APS senior executive in Indigenous Affairs with considerable experience consulting on leadership and management issues with not-for-profit agencies. His policy research interests include Indigenous wellbeing, social inclusion and business and community leadership. Robert provides guidance for Macroeconomics on policy related to public administration, change management processes and the not-for-profit sector.
 

Steve Keen

BA (Sydney), LLB (Sydney), DipEd (Sydney Teachers' College), MComm Hons (UNSW), PhD (UNSW)
Research Fellow - Disequilibrium Modelling
Steve Keen is an adviser to Macroeconomics on continuous time disequilibrium modeling and its application to various policy issues. He is an experienced economic model and author of books critical of the current economic policy orthodoxy, including Debunking Economics. He is also Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Western Sydney. His research interests include models of financial instability.
 

Darren Henry

B Ec Hons (ANU) PhD (La Trobe)
Research Fellow - Financial Analysis and Management
Darren Henry is an adviser to Macroeconomics on aspects of financial analysis and modeling. He is a highly experienced financial modeler with a deep understanding of quantitative methods and modeling techniques. He is also Associate Professor in Finance at La Trobe University. Darren's major research interests are in applied finance, mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; financial markets theory and performance of costings and using cost benefit analysis.
 

Kevin Donahue

BA (Hons) Boston College, MPP Georgetown
Research Fellow – International Development & Assistance
Kevin Donohue is an adviser to Macroeconomics on international development issues including best practice in the design of technical and financial assistance programs. Mr Donahue is an international development specialist with experience managing programs that provide technical and financial assistance to national and local governments for developing countries in our region. He has completed assignments for the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and United States Agency for International Development. He currently resides in Manila, Philippines.
 

Thomas Fuchs

M.Ec (Wuerzburg), PhD (Munich)
Research Fellow - Microeconometrics
Thomas Fuchs is an adviser to Macroeconomics on microeconomics and associated econometric modelling techniques. Thomas has worked at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. There he worked with teams that advised the OECD, the European Commission and the World Bank on education reform and productivity growth. During 2007 he worked for Econtech in Canberra. Here he undertook a number of modelling studies which analysed the impact of behavioral effects resulting from policy and institutional changes. These include studies for ACCI, DEWR, DHS and Finsia. He now works for the world's leading pricing advisory business.