1. John Quiggin was born on 29 March 1956 and is an Australian economist, a professor at the University of Queensland.
18 Facts About John Quiggin
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John Quiggin was formerly an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Federation Fellow and a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.
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John Quiggin then completed a Master of Economics through coursework and thesis at the Australian National University in 1984, and finished his Doctor of Philosophy in economics at the University of New England in 1988.
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From 1978 to 1983, John Quiggin was a research economist and in 1986 was the chief research economist with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, now called the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics of the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
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From 1996 to 1999 John Quiggin was a professor of economics and Australian Research Council Senior Fellow at James Cook University.
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Also in 1996, John Quiggin was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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John Quiggin has been based at the University of Queensland since 2003, being an Australian Research Council professorial fellow and federation fellow and a professor in the School of Economics and the School of Political Science and International Studies.
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John Quiggin was an adjunct professor at the Australian National University from 2003 to 2006 and was the Hinkley Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University in 2011.
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John Quiggin writes a blog involving "commentary on Australian and world events from a socialist and democratic viewpoint".
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John Quiggin is a regular contributor to Crooked Timber, Inside Story and The Guardian.
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John Quiggin was an opinion columnist for the Australian Financial Review from 1996 until March 2012.
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In 2012, through Princeton University Press, John Quiggin published his book Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us which sold upward of 20 000 copies and was translated into eight languages.
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John Quiggin was appointed in 2012 to the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.
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John Quiggin says that we need more efficient energy use and more renewable energy commercialisation.
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John Quiggin has frequently been awarded and recognised for his research, including twice receiving Federation Fellowships from the Australian Research Council.
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John Quiggin was awarded the Australian Social Science Academy Medal in 1993 and a Fellowship in 1996, received the 1997 and 2000 Sam Richardson of the Institute of Public Administration, Australia, received the 2001 Editors Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2002, and a Distinguished Fellowship of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in 2004.
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John Quiggin is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2011 received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia.
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John Quiggin was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2012.