Professor Ross Williams
Professorial Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Contact details
Phone: +61 3 8344 2125
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Email: [email protected]
Location
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 5, Faculty of Business and Economics Building, 111 Barry Street,
The University of Melbourne
Biography
Ross has been Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute since 2003. Prior to this he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce (1994-2002) and Professor of Econometrics (1975-2002) at the University of Melbourne. He was a Member of the Commonwealth Grants Commission from 2002 to until 2011. He has also held positions at Monash University, ANU and the World Bank. He has a PhD from the London School of Economics.
His research publications are in areas as diverse as demand and saving, time-use studies, the cost of civil litigation, housing, federal-state finance, and the economics of education. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Fellow of Queen's College. In 2010 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.