Judith Sloan

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Judith Sloan (born 22 November 1954) [1] is an Australian economist.

Sloan was born in Melbourne. She has been teaching as a university professor at Flinders University and the Curtin Institute of Technology [1] and is an honorary professorial fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research of the University of Melbourne. [2] She served as a commissioner on the Australian government's Productivity Commission and the Australian Fair Pay Commission, and she was deputy chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [3] and is a former board director of the Lowy Institute. [4]

Sloan sat on the boards of several companies, including Mayne Nickless, SGIO Insurance, Santos, Primelife (chair). [5] The Australian federal government appointed her to the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998; she was a founding member of the group Conservatives for an Australian Head of State. [6]

She writes for The Australian and is a frequent guest on the ABC talk show Q&A . An email leak in November 2018 revealed that Sloan earns A$357,000 for her work as contributing economics editor at The Australian. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sloan, Judith (1954–)", Encyclopedia of Australian Science
  2. Professor Judith Sloan, University of Melbourne
  3. Judith Sloan, Q&A , 20 December 2018
  4. Prof. Judith Sloan, Lowy Institute Archived 30 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Biography – Professor Judith Sloan, National CCS [ carbon capture and storage ] Week 2014
  6. Women for an Australian Republic – Hot Topics
  7. Evans, Michael (28 November 2018). "'Human error': News Corp salaries, redundancy entitlements emailed to staff". The Sydney Morning Herald .