Business Skills - Conferences & Public Speaking - Macroeconomic outlook

Percy Allan is a public policy economist and visiting professor at UTS. In 1996 Percy was awarded an Order of Australia for his contribution to public sector reform while he was Secretary (Head) of the NSW Treasury. These included adopted modern accounting and budgetary processes, the corporatisation of state trading enterprises, and the conceiving of IPART. From 1999 to 2007 he chaired the NSW Premier’s Council on the Cost and Quality of Government that reviewed 25 state government departments. Between 2018 and 2022 Percy chaired and coordinated the Evidence-Based Policy Research Project that benchmarked the quality of 100 federal and state government bills which helped persuade the NSW Upper House to adopt a Statement of Public Interest for all Bills.

Sydney has 15+ years’ experience as a people, program and project manager in strategy and operational assignments, leading analytical and enablement teams in consulting and industry, across Financial Services, Agribusiness, Infrastructure, Public Sector, TMT & Higher Ed.\r\n\r\nHe has lectured in managerial economics, and quantitative methods for economic analysis in Australia and overseas. Sydney has been a media commentator for a number of years in the areas of macroeconomics, industry analysis and policy and entrepreneurship.

Nicki Hutley is a highly experienced economist, with broad-based expertise in both macroeconomics and microeconomic policy gained over more than three decades in financial and investment markets and in economic consulting. She is particularly focussed on the intersection of economy, society and environment.