Renée Fry-McKibbin is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She is also a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia Monetary Policy Board.
With two decades of experience, Professor Fry-McKibbin is an expert analysing policy-relevant research questions around international macroeconomic and financial market shocks and their effects, mainly for small, open, resource-rich economies like Australia. She directs three research programs in CAMA and is a research associate in both the Centre for Applied Macro and Petroleum Economics (CAMP) at the BI Norwegian Business School (2012-) and the H.O. Stekler Research Program in Forecasting at George Washington University in Washington, DC (2014-).
Professor Fry-McKibbin's leadership roles include serving as Interim Director of Crawford School of Public Policy in 2022, Associate Dean (Research) for the College of Asia and the Pacific, Director of CAMA (2012-2014), and Deputy Director (2010-2012).
Renée holds several leadership positions in the wider economics and social sciences community. In 2022-2023, she was one of three panellists who conducted an independent review of the Reserve Bank of Australia, with most of the 51 recommendations adopted by the institution and the Australian government. Between 2022-2025, she was on the Executive Committee and then the Board of Directors of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Chair of the Disciplines of Business and Economics in the Academy. In 2023, she was elected to the Regional Standing Committee of the Econometrics Society for Australasia.
She was a member of the Economics Society of Australia Central Council (2021-2024) and a board member of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society (2014-). She is also a member of the Go8 Economics Advisory Group.
Professor Fry-McKibbin's expertise extends to editorship positions at several journals, including Editor of the Economic Record (2021-2024), following six years as Co-Editor (2015-2020). She is/was an Associate Editor for three international journals, including the International Review of Economics and Finance (2019-), Finance Research Letters (2016-), and the Journal of Banking & Finance (2014-2019).
In 2018, she was a member of the ARC Research Excellence Committee to evaluate the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) submissions for the Economics and Commerce for all universities in Australia for the Australian Research Council.
