Professor Gigi Foster on An hour with Robert Brennan - 18 May 2022

GUEST OVERVIEW: Gigi Foster – Professor of Economics at the University of NSW (UNSW) Business School, Prof. Gigi Foster has recently released a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of lockdowns and border closures in Australia Prof. Foster is co-author of the book, The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next. Prof. Foster holds a BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. She works in diverse fields including education, social influence, corruption, lab experiments, time use, behavioural economics and Australian policy. In 2017 she was awarded an Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. In 2019 she was named Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia. She regularly writes for both academic and popular press, and appears on TV and radio programs across Australia.