Australian Consulting Services – Expert Business Solutions
Our Consulting team provides tailored solutions to address clients' most critical challenges, executing over a hundred projects annually for local and global organizations. Specializing in forecasting, economic impact analysis, and evidence-based thought leadership, Oxford Economics leverages a comprehensive database of 200 countries, 100 sectors, and 7,000 cities and regions to deliver expert insights and drive informed decision-making.
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300+
Independent economists and analysts
2,000
Clients
40
years since established
20+
Offices around the world
Our Consulting Services
We combine the analytical skills of our consulting economists and thought leadership teams to deliver unique and ground-breaking research for the Australian economy.

Economic Impact Analysis and Policy
Quantifying the economic, social, and environmental impact of government policies, new investments, technological. Find out more

Bespoke Forecasting and Scenarios
Supporting strategy, policy, and risk appraisal with quantitative analysis tailored to your organisation.
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Construction and Infrastructure Consulting
Industry and economic insights to provide tailored analysis, insights and forecasts for the construction and infrastructure industry.
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Trade, Freight and Logistics
Economic insights, modelling, and development advice for the Australian transportation sector.
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Real Estate Consulting
Clarifying the economic real estate market conditions to enable more effective strategic decisions.
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Market Research
Engage stakeholders with data-driven insights. Through surveys, interviews, and analysis, primary market research uncovers key trends and market dynamics—building credibility, refining strategy, and driving informed decisions.
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Transactions and Due Diligence
Bespoke support for clients involved in the transaction process and ongoing monitoring of infrastructure and economic assets.
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Climate Change Consulting
Quantifying the impact of global warming and abatement policies on your organisation and its overall environmental footprint.
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Thought Leadership
High-impact, evidence-based narratives to help executives run their organisations more sustainably and profitably.
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Cities and Regions Consulting
Understand the consequences of global, national and local events on cities and regional economies.
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Industry Consulting
Translate what the broader questions around key economic and sector trends, risk, technology disruptors, as well as policy and regulatory changes mean for your organisation.
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Tourism Consulting
Our team of expert economists develops custom economic impact studies, policy analyses, and forecast models for the travel and tourism sector to deliver the best solution for you.

Transport Advisory
Our Transport Advisory experts provide strategy and transaction advice across all modes of transportation and sectors.

Construction and Infrastructure Consulting
Leveraging Oxford Economics’ industry and economic insights to provide tailored analysis, insights and forecasts for construction and infrastructure industry stakeholders including government agencies, builders and construction contractors, financial institutions and the broader industry supply chain.
Industries We Serve
Asset Management
Automotive
Aviation, Maritime, Logistics and Transport
Banking and Finance
Climate & Sustainability
Construction and Engineering
Construction and Infrastructure
Consumer and Retail
Energy, Renewables, Chemicals and Mining
Food, Beverages and FMCG
Government and Education
Healthcare
Insurance
Life Sciences
Manufacturing
Professional Services
Real Estate
Technology, Telecoms, Media and Entertainment
Trade and Member Associations
Travel and Tourism
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Kristian Kolding
Head of Consulting, OE Australia
+61 (4) 1040 9070

Kristian Kolding
Head of Consulting, OE Australia
Sydney, Australia
Kristian leads Oxford Economics Australia’s Consulting team, working with public and private sector leaders to help them prepare for the future by applying relevant economic theory and forecasts to inform effective policy and business strategy development.

Emily Dabbs
Head of Macro Consulting, OE Australia
+61 (4) 2438 9909

Emily Dabbs
Head of Macro Consulting, OE Australia
Sydney, Australia
Emily leads Oxford Economics Australia’s Macro Consulting team. She has over 10 years of economic analysis and consulting experience, focusing on macroeconomic forecast and analysis. Emily regularly provides strategy support and briefings, and presentations to clients and key stakeholders to support a broader understand of the economic environment and the impact on their business.

Adrian Hart
Head of Construction & Infrastructure Consulting, OE Australia
+61 (0) 2 8458 4233

Adrian Hart
Head of Construction & Infrastructure Consulting, OE Australia
Sydney, Australia
Adrian has over 23 years of economic analysis and consulting experience with Oxford Economics Australia, focusing on the infrastructure, building, maintenance and mining industries. Adrian has undertaken a wide range of consultancy projects for the public and private sector based on his detailed understanding of construction, mining and maintenance markets, their drivers and outlooks, the range of organisations operating in this space and the issues they face.
This work includes deeper industry liaison, contractor and competitive analysis, pipeline analysis, demand and cost escalation forecasting, and industry capacity and capability projects for the public and private sector. He is the lead author of major reports but also undertakes briefings and workshops for senior management, board members and industry associations, leads in-depth stakeholder consultation, and facilitates and chairs roundtables between government and industry.

Andrew Tessler
Chief Economist, Oxford Economics Middle East, and Managing Director
+971 504 039 455

Andrew Tessler
Chief Economist, Oxford Economics Middle East, and Managing Director
London, United Kingdom
Andrew heads up Oxford Economics Australia’s applied economics consulting practice. He has 20 years’ experience as an economist and is a dual Australian/UK national specialising in transport economics, with international experience in the field. Andrew has worked at the NSW Treasury, Booz & Co (now PwC Strategy&) and Oxford Economics in the UK.  Â
Projects I’ve worked on:
- The economic impact of Buy Now Pay Later in Australia
- Regulators globally are realising traditional finance and credit products need re-evaluation to determine how best to provide proportionate, scalable and targeted regulatory frameworks that balance payments innovation, consumer choice, flexibility and interoperability, while delivering high standards of consumer protection.
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- Regulators globally are realising traditional finance and credit products need re-evaluation to determine how best to provide proportionate, scalable and targeted regulatory frameworks that balance payments innovation, consumer choice, flexibility and interoperability, while delivering high standards of consumer protection.

Darren Anderson
Head of Global Transactions, OE Australia
+61 (0) 2 8458 4210

Darren Anderson
Head of Global Transactions, OE Australia
Sydney, Australia
Darren heads up our global transactions team, with a focus on both commercial and economic due diligence. He is also a specialist in freight movements, both at a port level and as the lead on Oxford Economics’ global TradePrism service.

Alex Hooper
Lead Economist, OE Australia
+61 4 7480 1190

Alex Hooper
Lead Economist, OE Australia
Sydney, Australia
Alex has over 6 years of economic consulting experience, working with senior internal and external stakeholders to develop quantitative and qualitative approaches for a range of strategic investments and interventions across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Alex has undertaken a wide range of consulting projects for the public and private sectors including the viability of major new infrastructure initiatives in transport, arts and culture; strategic analysis of new city developments; the economic and social impact of innovative investment programs and recently advising a Middle Eastern government on the impact of once in a generation fiscal reform.

Michael Brennan
Director – Economic Impact
+61 (0) 410 244 294

Michael Brennan
Director – Economic Impact
Sydney, Australia
Michael Brennan is a Director at Oxford Economics, based in Australia, specialising in applied microeconomics, including cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, business cases and economic impact assessment. He has extensive experience advising government and corporate clients across transport, energy, technology, defence and infrastructure sectors.
Before joining Oxford Economics, Michael held leadership roles at Accenture Strategy, AlphaBeta and Deloitte Access Economics, where he led major projects on the energy transition, digital transformation, infrastructure investment and workforce planning. His work has influenced public policy, government investment decisions and regulation across some of Australia’s most critical industries.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia.

Richard Robinson
Associate Director, Construction & Infrastructure
+61 (0) 2 8458 4250

Richard Robinson
Associate Director, Construction & Infrastructure
Sydney, Australia
Richard Robinson is an Associate Director, who works across the Construction & Infrastructure and Economics consulting teams. Richard has over 35 years of experience in analysis, consulting and forecasting of macroeconomic variables, resources, investment and civil engineering construction activity, output and employment by industry sector by state, other key state economic variables, as well as production of manufactures, consumer goods and commodities. He was the chief economic forecaster and a regular presenter at conferences for BIS Shrapnel, prior to the takeover by Oxford Economics.
Richard has worked on a wide range of consultancy projects, including cost escalation for wages and materials; formulating end-use sector demand models for forecasting product demand, energy, electricity, employment, land use and transport-related variables; studies of the Australian cement and concrete, steel and gas markets.

Richard Frost
Associate Director, Transport Advisory
+44 (0)79 6042 5952

Richard Frost
Associate Director, Transport Advisory
London, United Kingdom
Richard has over 30 years’ experience providing transport planning advice and infrastructure advisory services, with a particular focus on highway traffic and revenue forecasting and economic appraisal projects. He has led dozens of demand forecasting projects around the world. He has managed numerous large traffic modelling projects, many with major data collection programs, and is familiar with various modelling software including SATURN, EMME, and Visum. He has worked on highway projects across the world including the USA, Canada, Europe (UK, Ireland, France, Portugal, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Slovakia), Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Chile, Belize, and Brazil. Richard has experience working on several projects in the US, including studies in Texas, Georgia, Maryland, New York, Virginia and Washington DC.
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