Kevin Fox is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Applied Economic Research in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales.
He works primarily in the field of economic measurement, with a focus on productivity, prices and efficiency analysis.
After studying Japanese in Tokyo for two years, he studied economics at the University of Canterbury and the University of British Columbia.
He joined UNSW in 1994 and served as the Head of the School of Economics 2008-12. He chaired the Australian Consumer Price Index Review Advisory Group in 2009-2010. He is a member of the Methodology Advisory Committee and the Productivity Measurement Reference Group of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
He has been a consultant for agencies such as the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Swiss National Bank, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Asian Development Bank, and the New Zealand Treasury.
He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and a council member of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
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