Centre Director

Peter Whiteford FASSA is a Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, Canberra. His research focus is on international comparisons of social security policies, and on inequality and redistribution.  He has previously worked for the Australian government, at the University of New South Wales and in the University of York in the United Kingdom, as well as in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. In 2008, he was appointed by the Australian government to the Reference Group for the Harmer Review of the Australian pension system. In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2022 he was appointed to the Australian Government Interim Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee.