Saul ESLAKE has over-forty years’ experience as a professional economist includes thirty years as chief economist at a number of financial institutions, including: National Mutual Ltd (at the time, Australia’s second-largest life insurance business); the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), one of Australia’s four large commercial banks; and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has also served on a variety of government advisory panels in Australia, covering statistics, foreign affairs and trade, tourism, housing and the arts.
In 2015 Saul returned to the island state of Tasmania, where he grew up, and is now based there. Since then Saul has been running his own independent economics advisory and consultancy service, Corinna Economic Advisory from Hobart, Tasmania. Saul does keynote addresses at public and private conferences; participates in panel discussions; presents to boards, investment and asset allocation committees; undertakes customized analyses and reports for corporate, investor, not-for-profit and government clients; has given testimony to Parliamentary Committees; and appears frequently on radio and TV and in the print media in Australia and other countries.
Saul currently serves on the Advisory Panels for the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office, and the Australian Taxation Office’s ‘Tax Gap’ Project; and is also on the Advisory Board of Jamieson Coote Bonds, a Melbourne-based specialist government bond fund manager.
Saul holds a first-class honours degree in Economics and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Tasmania. He also undertook the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Company Directors course.