Professor John Piggott AO
Concerning the Presenter:
Professor John Piggott AO, is Director of the Australian Analysis Council Centre of Excellence in Inhabitants Ageing Analysis (CEPAR) on the College of New South Wales, the place he’s Scientia Professor of Economics. A former Australian Professorial Fellow, he has revealed extensively on points in retirement and pension economics and finance; and in public finance extra typically; his analysis has appeared within the main worldwide economics and actuarial educational journals. He’s at present Affiliate Editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing.
John labored with the Japanese authorities for practically a decade from 1999 on pension and inhabitants ageing points. He has undertaken consultancies and contract analysis for a variety of international governments and worldwide organisations, together with Russia, Indonesia, the World Financial institution, the Asian Improvement Financial institution, and UNESCAP. From 2008-2010 he was Visiting Scholar on the Wharton College of Enterprise, and in 2018, was awarded a Rockefeller Residency to undertake analysis into ageing and inequality in Asia.
In 2019, he was appointed co-chair of the Think20 (T20) Job Drive on Getting older Inhabitants throughout Japan’s G20 Presidency, and from 2019 to 2022 was a Commissioner on the US Nationwide Academy of Medication’s Worldwide Fee on Wholesome Longevity. He collectively led the institution of the Worldwide Pension Analysis Affiliation (IPRA) which was launched on the OECD in Paris in 2019. At a nationwide stage, he was a member of each the Henry Tax Evaluation (2008-9) and the Australian Ministerial Superannuation Advisory Committee for five years from 2007. Professor Piggott is appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) within the 2020 Australia Day Honours Checklist for his distinguished service to training, to inhabitants ageing analysis and to public finance coverage improvement.
Concerning the Seminar:
The presentation contrasts Australia’s strategy to social safety coverage with that adopted in different developed nations. It outlines the hyperlinks between inhabitants ageing and financial variables, and reveals how the Australian strategy performs higher beneath inhabitants ageing.
Retirement incomes have been chosen because the exemplar coverage. With this background, implications for the strategy to Aged Care funding, at present beneath debate, are explored, together with the applying of Australia’s strategy to social safety coverage formulation within the rising nations of Asia.
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