Riznaldi Akbar
University of Western Australia
Australia

I am currently a third-year PhD student in Economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA) under Australian Awards Scholarship. Prior studying at the UWA, I have been working for Indonesian Ministry of Finance since 2002 at various agencies including Indonesia’s Fiscal Policy Office and the Directorate General of Taxation. My PhD research lies at the intersection of political economy and development of economic models.

At the UWA, I am a tutor for Applied Econometrics and research assistant for Economics for Business course. Recently, I was awarded a prestigious Hadi Soesastro Prize 2016 by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. I received a master degree with highest distinction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.