SAUL ESLAKE

Economist

SAUL ESLAKE

‘Welcome to my website …
I’m an independent economist, consultant, speaker,
and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania’

Topics


Workplace Relations Reform: Examining the Economic Data

Labour Market | 25th October 2005

Address to a conference sponsored by The Australian Financial Review, 25th October 2005


Poverty in Tasmania: An Economist’s Perspective

Tasmania | 19th October 2005

The third annual Dorothy Pearce address to the Tasmanian Council of Social Service (TasCOSS), 19th October 2005


Three Seemingly Unrelated Propositions Concerning Australia’s Identity and Economic Performance

Australian Society and Politics | 6th September 2005

An address to The Royal Society of Tasmania, 6th September 2005


Human Capital and Tasmania’s Economic Future

Education, Tasmania | 24th August 2005

Keynote Address to the Australian Human Resources Institute’s ‘HR Week’ Conference – Wrest Point, Hobart, 24th August 2005


China and India in the World Economy

Asian Economies | 7th July 2005

Paper presented to the International Conference of Commercial Bank Economists, 7th July 2005


Competition, Productivity, Economic Growth and Living Standards

Economic Policies, Productivity | 3rd February 2005

Address to the Adjudication Branch of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission – Mollymook Shores Resort, New South Wales, 3rd February 2005


Is the Australian property market in ‘bubble trouble’?

Housing | 14th November 2003

Presentation to ANZ Queensland customers, Brisbane, 14th November 2003


Education and the Economy

Education | 15th September 2003

Address to the Associations of School Bursars and Administrators 2003 Annual Conference, 15th September 2003


SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Speaking Engagement | Boardroom Advisory | Commissioned Report | Expert Witness



Saul Eslake spoke to Zurich Australia executives and staff at their ‘Accelerate’ conference in Sydney on 9th May 2024, covering short- and longer-term trends in major ‘advanced’ economies, China, India and Australia, with a bit of geo-politics thrown in.



“You are the best economic thinker in the country hands down”

Sheryle Bagwell, recently retired Senior Business Correspondent (and sometime Executive Producer),
ABC Radio National Breakfast


“Just want to congratulate you Saul on the unbelievably good set of slides you just presented, possibly the best I have ever seen. You have set the bar very high.”

Dr Joe Flood, Adjunct Fellow, RMIT University, Pandemicia


“Thank you very much for your excellent presentation for the Economic Society today. It is always a great pleasure to hear your eloquent, up-to-date and comprehensive talks.”

Andrew Trembath, economist, Victorian and Australian Government agencies


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TESTIMONIALS

What Others Say


Australian Minister for Housing, the Hon. Clare O'Neill MP on ABC Q&A, September 2024

“We are lucky as a State to have an economist of your calibre willing to readily make yourself available to give us a clea r perception of where we are at and the direction we need to go for a better future”
Diplomatic Representative, August 2024

“You are one of the best at what you do in the world”
Gail Fosler, Chief Economist, The Conference Board, New York, December 2002

“I have never known an economist to have such a knowledge of world economic facts and to be able to bring to bear so much information in answering a question without notice”
Charles Goode, Chairman, ANZ Bank, July 2009

“Saul Eslake is … a highly regarded independent economist with the highest degree of integrity"
John Durie, Columnist, The Australian, July 2009

“… one of the few people in this world who can have so many oranges up in the air at the same time but still manage to catch them"
Andrew Clark, journalist, Australian Financial Review, November 2008

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