CIS Research Scholars

• Andrew Baker
  Research Fellow, Social Foundations Program
  Expertise: National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), pensions and allowances, welfare reform, social policy
• Jessica Brown
  Visiting Fellow
  Expertise: family policy, paid parental leave, jobless families, Disability Support Pension, social policy, welfare, population policy
• Jennifer Buckingham
  Research Fellow, Social Foundations Program
  Expertise: Schools policy, school funding, school choice, literacy, NAPLAN, teacher quality
• Robert Carling
  Senior Fellow, Economics Program
  Expertise: taxation, government spending, fiscal policy, federalism
• Simon Cowan
  Research Fellow & TARGET30 Program Director, Economics Program
  Expertise: Government industry policy and regulation.
• Eric Crampton
  Visiting Fellow, New Zealand Policy Unit
  Expertise: Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, Prediction Markets, Economics of Paternalism
• Oliver Marc Hartwich
  Adjunct Scholar
  Expertise: local government, housing, European affairs, Industry policy, economics, population growth
• Benjamin Herscovitch
  Policy Analyst, Social Foundations Program
  Expertise: social policy issues, including Asia literacy, multiculturalism and social mobility, and foreign policy
• Geoff Hogbin
  Senior Fellow, Economics Program
  Expertise: employment contracts, labour markets, regulation, economics
• Stephen Kirchner
  Research Fellow, Economics Program
  Expertise: monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets, Public Choice theory, trade and investment
• Peter Kurti
  Research Fellow, Religion and the Free Society Program
  Expertise: Religion and values in civil society, law and religious freedom, ethics
• John Lee
  Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy
  Expertise: China, India, Australian Foreign Policy, Southeast Asia
• Greg Lindsay
  Executive Director
• Barry Maley
  Senior Fellow, Social Foundations Program
  Expertise: Family, social policy, welfare state, Australian divorce law
• Alexander Philipatos
  Policy Analyst, Economics Program
  Expertise: Industrial Relations
• Jeremy Sammut
  Research Fellow, Social Foundations Program
  Expertise: Australian health system, child protection, social policy issues
• Peter Saunders
  Senior Fellow, Social Foundations Program
  Expertise: Social policy issues, welfare reform, nanny state, tax reform, poverty
• Steven Schwartz
  Senior Fellow
  Expertise: Higher Education, Freedom of speech