Michael Stockton "Mike" Keating (born 25 January 1940) is a retired Australian senior public servant.

Early life

Michael Keating was born in 1940. Keating graduated from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

with a first class honours degree in

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 then studied at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

, attaining his PhD in 1967.

Career

Keating was appointed

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of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in May 1983. In 1986 Keating shifted to head the Department of Finance. In 1991, Prime Minister

Paul Keating Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician and unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He previously serv ...

(no relation) recommended that Michael Keating be appointed as Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Keating retired from the role and left the

Australian Public Service The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia responsible for the public administration, public policy, and public services of the departments and executive and statutory agencies of the G ...

in 1996. Between 1997 and 2007, Keating was a visiting fellow in the Economics Program at the Australian National University. His two principal fields of interest were: integration of social and economic policy, particularly as it relates to improving labour market outcomes; and research into the factors which are affecting Australia's governance, and how governments, institutions and policies are responding, and how relations between the citizen and the state are changing. In 2015 Keating was appointed as Chairman of The Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes.

Awards and honours

In January 1990, Keating was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of his public service. Six years later he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, for service to social, economic and public sector reform, particularly as a leader in organizational and management reform. In 2001, Keating was honoured with an honorary degree from Griffith University.

Works

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References

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