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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 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 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 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.   

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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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 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 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 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 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.