Peter Dawkins

Professor Peter Dawkins was Director of the Melbourne Institute, a position he was appointed to in 1996. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at Curtin University of Technology. In 1999-2000 he was a member of the federal government's Reference Group on Welfare Reform, and since 2001 has been a member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council (since 1999) and of the Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council (since 2003).