Saul Eslake

Saul began his career as an economist in the Commonwealth Public Service, including two years at the Treasury in Canberra. Prior to joining ANZ, he was Chief Economist (International) at National Mutual Funds Management (now part of the Axa Insurance group) and, before that, Chief Economist of the stockbroking firm McIntosh Securities (now part of the Merrill Lynch group) from 1986 to 1991. Saul Eslake is an economist and policy director at the Grattan Institute.

Saul has a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania, and in 2003 he completed the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York.

Saul is currently on the Boards of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and the University of Tasmania Foundation. He is also a member of three Federal Government advisory panels – the WTO (World Trade Organization) Advisory Group, the Trade Policy Advisory Council, and the Foreign Affairs Council.