McKibbin Software Group

MSG was formed in 1993 with the goal of making available the latest developments in numerical algorithms for research and policy analysis. The application of these techniques to developing global economic models has put McKibbin Software Group at the frontier of research in global modelling and formed a base for a global network of researchers. The... Director of Reseach for MSG is Professor Warwick McKibbin. Professor Warwick J. McKibbin has a Vice Chancellor's Chair in Public Policy in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington where he is co-Director of the Climate and Energy Economics Project; a scholar in the Centre on Social Dynamics and Policy; and a scholar in the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy Professor McKibbin was a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (the Australian equivalent of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve) from 2001-2011. He was a Professorial Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy (2003-2012) in Sydney where is was involved in the design and development of the Lowy Institute for a decade from its inception. He served as a member of the Australian Prime Ministers Science, Engineering and innovation Council and on the Australian Prime Minister's Taskforce on Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia . Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling. He has published more that 200 academic papers as well as being a regular commentator in the popular press. He has authored / edited four books including the book " Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy " written with Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and " Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach " with Professor Peter Wilcoxen of Syracuse University. He has been a consultant for many ...Read More