John Reginald Piggott is an Australian economist. He is the Director of the

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at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

. He is a Fellow of the

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Education and career

John Piggott graduated with a PhD in Economics from the

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. He has held continuous full-time academic appointments since graduation. He is Director of the

and Scientia Professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, Australia. In 2011, he was awarded a UNSW Scientia Professorship in recognition of his international research stature. In that same year he was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellowship and began his term as the Director of CEPAR. He holds Research Fellowships with both CESifo and

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. He holds an on-going Visiting Professor position at

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, and was Visiting Scholar with the

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from 2008-2010. He has held a range of academic management positions at

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, including two terms as Head of the School of Economics, and seven years as Associate Dean Research. His Australian policy experience includes membership of both the Henry Tax Review Panel and the Ministerial Superannuation Advisory Committee. Internationally, he worked for nearly a decade with the Japanese Government on pension and ageing issues. John Piggott has been a consultant to several foreign governments on pension issues, including Russia and Indonesia. In 2018/2019, John Piggott was appointed as a cochair of the ''Think20 (T20) Task Force on Aging Population'' during Japan’s

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Presidency, helping G20 nations decide how they will cope with

ageing population Population ageing is an increasing median age in a population because of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancy. Most countries have rising life expectancy and an ageing population, trends that emerged first in developed countries ...

Research contributions

John Piggott has a long-standing interest in the economics of

population ageing Population ageing is an increasing median age in a population because of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancy. Most countries have rising life expectancy and an ageing population, trends that emerged first in developed countries b ...

retirement Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...

and pension economics and

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

. His publications include more than 100 journal articles and chapters in books. He has also co-authored two books, ''Forced Saving'' and ''UK Tax Policy and Applied General Equilibrium Analysis'', both published by

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. In 2016 and 2018, he co-edited three volumes on ageing: Elsevier’s ''Handbook of the Economics of Population Ageing'', ''Population Ageing and Australia’s Future'', published by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and

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, and ''The Taxation of Pensions,'' published by

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. He serves as book review editor of the

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journal, the ''Journal of Pension Economics and Finance'', as an Associate Editor of the ''Journal of the Economics of Aging'', and has been appointed to the editorial board of the ''Journal of Retirement''.

Awards and honours

* Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (

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) (1992) * ARC Australian Professorial Fellow (2011-2015) *

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Scientia Professorship (2011) *Officer of the Order of Australia (2020)

References

External links

Website of CEPAR: cepar.edu.au

Researcher profile at UNSW Sydney
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