John Piggott (economist)

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John Piggott
Academic career
Institution UNSW Business School, CEPAR
FieldEconomics of Population Ageing; Economics of Pensions, Retirement, and Ageing; Public Finance
Alma mater University of London

John Reginald Piggott AO FASSA is an Australian economist. He is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

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Education and career

John Piggott graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of London. He has held continuous full-time academic appointments since graduation. He is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) [1] and Scientia Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, Australia. [2]

In 2011, he was awarded a UNSW Scientia Professorship in recognition of his international research stature. [3] In that same year he was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellowship and began his term as the Director of CEPAR. [4] He holds Research Fellowships with both CESifo and IZA Institute of Labor Economics. [5] [6] He holds an on-going Visiting Professor position at Zhejiang University, and was Visiting Scholar with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2008-2010. [7]

He has held a range of academic management positions at UNSW Sydney, including two terms as Head of the School of Economics, and seven years as Associate Dean Research. [8]

His Australian policy experience includes membership of both the Henry Tax Review Panel and the Ministerial Superannuation Advisory Committee. [9] [10] Internationally, he worked for nearly a decade with the Japanese Government on pension and ageing issues. John Piggott has been a consultant to several foreign governments on pension issues, including Russia and Indonesia. [11]

In 2018/2019, John Piggott was appointed as a cochair of the Think20 (T20) Task Force on Aging Population during Japan’s G20 Presidency, helping G20 nations decide how they will cope with ageing populations. [12]

Research contributions

John Piggott has a long-standing interest in the economics of population ageing, retirement and pension economics and finance. His publications include more than 100 journal articles and chapters in books. [8]

He has also co-authored two books, Forced Saving and UK Tax Policy and Applied General Equilibrium Analysis, both published by Cambridge University Press. [13] [14] In 2016 and 2018, he co-edited three volumes on ageing: Elsevier’s Handbook of the Economics of Population Ageing, Population Ageing and Australia’s Future, published by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and ANU Press, and The Taxation of Pensions, published by MIT Press. [15] [16] [17]

He serves as book review editor of the Cambridge journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Aging, and has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Retirement. [8]

Awards and honours

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  2. ↑ "Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research (AIPAR)". UNSW Business School. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. ↑ "Business School appoints two new Scientia Professors". UNSW Business School. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "Grants". UNSW Business School. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "CESifo Group Munich - CESifo Research Network Members". www.cesifo-group.de. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "John Piggott | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "John Piggott". UNSW Business School. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
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  10. ↑ Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia. "Press Release - Peak Superannuation Advisory Group Established [03/03/2008]". ministers.treasury.gov.au. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
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  12. ↑ "CEPAR Director to co-chair T20 Task Force on Aging Population | Cepar". cepar.edu.au. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  13. ↑ Piggott, John. "Forced saving mandating private retirement incomes | Public economics and public policy". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  14. ↑ Whalley, John; Piggott, John (October 1985). "UK Tax Policy and Applied General Equilibrium Analysis by John Piggott". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  15. ↑ "Handbook of the Economics of Population Ageing". www.elsevier.com. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  16. ↑ "Search titles | ANU Press". press.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  17. ↑ "The Taxation of Pensions". The MIT Press. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  18. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Professor John Piggott FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 26 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ↑ "Professor John Reginald Piggott". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 26 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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