currently a professor of Finance at RMIT, Melbourne. Before taking on the present position, he was a professor of Finance at Monash University and La Trobe University, and a lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of Sheffield. Before becoming an academic in 1991, he was a professional economist and a financial journalist for over 10 years, and he also worked as an economist at the Financial Institutions Division of the Bureau of Statistics, the International Monetary Fund (Washington DC). Professor Moosa has published 10 books and over 160 papers in international journals. He has also written for the prestigious Euromoney magazine. He has served in a number of advisory positions, including his role as an economic advisor to the US Treasury.