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Formal Name: Sean Turnell Personal Title: Associate Professor Position: Associate Professor Organisational Unit: Department of Economics Qualifications: BEc Macq. PhD Macq. Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8493 Fax: (+61-2) 9850-6069 Email: sturnell@efs.mq.edu.au Location: E4A 426 Websites: |
Profile
A former Senior Analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia, Sean Turnell joined the Economics Department in 1991.
His research interests include Burma and its economy, financial sector reform in developing countries, the history of global monetary institutions, Australian trade policy, and the history of Australian economic thought.
Sean Turnell's Ph.D thesis examined the efforts of Australian economists to reform the architecture of the global economy during the first half of the twentieth century.(A copy of Sean's thesis Monetary Reformers, Amateur Idealists and Keynesian Crusaders: Australian Economists’ International Advocacy, 1925-1950 can be downloaded here - file size 872KB).
Sean is a member of the editorial board of the History of Economics Review, Burma Economic Watch and the Macquarie Economics Research Papers.
Much of Sean's work has been concerned with economic reform in a post-democratic Burma. He is a member of the Burma Support Group (Sydney) and the Technical Advisory Network of Burma. In 2001, with Alison Vicary, he established Burma Economic Watch an on-line resource of information and commentary on Burma's economy. Burma Economic Watch can be found at www.burmalibrary.org.
Sean is currently completing a book on the political economy of money and banking in Burma for the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS). He was a Visiting Scholar to the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge and to Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 2006.
In March 2006, Sean was invited to testify on Burma to the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs. This testimony is available at http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2006/hrg060329p.html
Committee/Board Membership
Sean is a member of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, the Economic Society of Australia, and the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
Editorial Boards
Sean currently serves on the editorial boards of Burma Economic Watch, the History of Economics Review and the Macquarie Economics Research Papers.
Referee
Sean has acted as a referee for The Cambridge Journal of Economics, the History of Economics Review, the Economic Record and the Australian Journal of Politics and History.
