Economics of Education in Europe (EENEE)

Andrew Leigh and the Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Name:	Professor Andrew Leigh, PhD
Postal Adress:	Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University Economics RSSS, HC Coombs Building, ANU ACT 0200 Australia
Homepage:	http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/contact.htm
Current position:	Professor at the Australian National University

Photo EENEE External Advisor Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh is Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU), where he formerly has been Fellow and Associate Professor. Leigh holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the University of Sydney, and an MPA and PhD from Harvard University. He has previously worked as a lawyer and as Associate to Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia. He has also worked as a researcher for the British Labour Party, as senior trade adviser to the Australian Labor Party, and as a research fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute (Washington DC). Leigh is member of the Editorial Boards of the Economic Papers and the European Journal of Political Economy. His current research comprises the fields of labour economics, Economics and Politics, Inequality, Population Economics and Economics of Education. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles (including in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Health Economics), over 20 other articles and book reviews; 1 co-authored book; 1 co-edited book; 6 book chapters; 3 policy reports; 3 encyclopedia entries, over 100 opinion pieces. Leigh will serve the network as an intermediary to research centres in the economics of education in Australia.