Richard Holden

Richard Holden is Scientia Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, Director of the Manos Innovation Lab in Education, and President Emeritus of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is also a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review. Previously he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received an AM and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school he worked in private equity for several years, and he continues to advise in the corporate sector. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Society of New South Wales.

His most recent books are Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, Digital (University of California Press), and Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race (UNSW Press).