Warwick McKibbin

Warwick McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian Professor of economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more that 200 scholarly articles and several books and is internationally known for his contribution to global economic modeling.

Education

He initially studied at the University of New South Wales where he received a bachelor's degree with Honors in both Economics and Econometrics and was awarded the University Medal in 1980. McKibbin then studied under Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard University and was awarded a PhD in Economics in 1986.

Roles

He is Director of the ANU Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis as well as an Adjunct Professor of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health.

He is also the Professorial Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney and a non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC where he co-directs the Climate Change program.

McKibbin is President of McKibbin Software Group Inc.

He has been a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia since July 2001 and a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council since 2005. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences at the age of 40 and in 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal "For service to Australian society through economic policy and tertiary education".

Collaborations

The McKibbin-Wilcoxen Blueprint. Professor Warwick McKibbin (Australian National University) and Professor Peter Wilcoxen (Syracuse University) outline various approaches to climate change policy. They argue that the issue of taking action against climate change should be separated from the issue of whether Australia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Once the Kyoto Protocol is set aside it is clear that there are better options available. One such approach is the McKibbin-Wilcoxen Blueprint which is outlined in this article.

They argue that Kyoto Protocol based Carbon trading systems are too inflexible/brittle to attract developing countries (particularly China & India). A better system would need to be flexible enough to refine outcomes over time (as new data become available).

External links

* [http://www.sensiblepolicy.com/ Warwick McKibbin's Home Page]
* [http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=150 McKibbin-Wilcoxen Blueprint article on http://www.lowyinstitute.org/]