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Henry Isaac Ergas AO (born 22 August 1952) is an Australian economist. He has had academic teaching posts as well as working for private consulting firms, and has had various appointments on governmental and other panels and boards.

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Early life and education

Henry Isaac Ergas [1] was born on 22 August 1952. [2] He is a descendant of Sephardic Jews in Spain. [3]

He received a first-class honours B.A. in economics at Sussex University and a Master of Economics with high distinction from the University of Queensland. [4]

Career

Ergas has taught at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, the Centre for Research in Network Economics and Communications at the University of Auckland, Monash University [4] and at the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE Paris). [5]

He was managing director of Network Economics Consulting Group (NECG) from 1996 until 2004, [2] when it was acquired by CRA International [6] where he became vice president and regional head, Asia Pacific. [7]

In 2004 he was appointed adjunct professor at the School of Economics, National University of Singapore. [4]

From 2009 to 2016, he was professor of infrastructure economics at the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong. [8]

He also worked at the OECD and the Australian Trade Practices Commission.[ when? ][ citation needed ]

Other activities and appointments

Ergas is a columnist for The Australian newspaper.[ citation needed ]

He chaired the Australian Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee set up by the Australian Government in 1999 to review Australia's intellectual property laws as they relate to competition policy. [9]

Ergas was an independent contributor to a paper submitted to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in 2010, which cautioned against imposing regulations that, while aimed at net neutrality, may cause costs that exceed the expected benefits. [10]

Other appointments include:

Honours

In 2004 Ergas was received into the Ordre national du Mérite. [a] [4]

In the 2016 Australia Day Honours, Ergas was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to infrastructure economics, and to higher education, to public policy development and review, and as a supporter of emerging artists". [1]

Selected publications

Footnotes

  1. Not stated, but assumed Chevalier, i.e. the lowest rank.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Henry Isaac Ergas: Officer of the Order of Australia AO", 26 January 2016, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
  2. 1 2 Henry Ergas (October 2005). "Report: Adjusted access pricing model for digital STUs" (PDF). p. 30. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  3. Henry Ergas (4 October 2023). "Without a Jewish homeland these became a perpetually persecuted people" . Weekend Australian Magazine . Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Curriculum Vitae/Bibliography: Henry Ergas", annexure HE1 pp. 43–62, Australian Competition Tribunal, 26 March 2014
  5. "Martine Durand" (PDF). Variances – la revue des anciens de l'ENSAE (interview) (in French). No. 46. February 2013. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  6. "Charles River Associates Acquires Leading Australian Economic and Regulatory Consulting Firm", CRA International, 18 November 2004 Retrieved8 October 2024.
  7. "Professor Henry Isaac Ergas", Economic Society of Australia Retrieved8 October 2024.
  8. Leading Economist Appointed at SMART Infrastructure Facility Archived 2011-04-11 at the Wayback Machine , Campus Daily, 18 August 2010
  9. Hall, Eleanor (7 August 2013). "Debate: Economic crisis! Or what economic crisis". The World Today . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ProQuest   1418030286.
  10. Weisman, Dennis; Waverman, Leonard; et al. (12 April 2010). "Net Neutrality Regulation: The Economic Evidence". doi:10.2139/ssrn.1587058. S2CID   52840191. SSRN   1587058 via Social Science Research Network.