Current Appointment    Senior Lecturer in Economics,

                                    School of Business, Accounting and Law,

                                             Higher Education Division, CQUniversity, 

                                            160 Ann Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, AUSTRALIA

I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics (level C) in the School of Business, Accounting and Law, CQUniversity, Brisbane. I am a member of Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Register of Experts, Australia.

I have a sound research expertise in various economics approaches and tools (economic impact assessment; non market valuation techniques: i.e. choice modelling, contingent valuation method, qualitative and quantitative surveys; experimental economics; input output method). I also have an extensive teaching experience in economics (i.e. Environmental Economics, Economics for Business, Property Economics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics) and statistics.

I was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics in 2007 through the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. I completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics, Macquarie University in 2010.

I have presented research papers at national and international conferences and published in various journals such as Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Resources Policy, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, Rural Society Journal, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies.

Since 2005 I was involved in a number of research projects and consultancies with total funding $1.9 million. The funding bodies included Queensland Research Council, Queensland Government, CSIRO, ACARP and Anglo Coal.