Helen Hughes
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Helen Hughes AO is Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on October 1st 1928, she migrated with her parents to Melbourne in 1939. Helen Hughes completed a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne in 1949 and an MA (Hons) in 1951. Her dissertation on the history of the Australian steel industry was later published as her first book, and she completed her PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1954.
In 1985 Helen Hughes presented the ABC's 'Boyer Lectures' on 'Australia in a Developing World'.
She was Professor of Economics and Director of the National Centre for Development Studies at ANU from 1983 to 1993, and a member of the Fitzgerald Committee on Immigration: A Commitment to Australia. She also worked at the World Bank from 1968 to 1983 and was a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Planning from 1987 to 1993 [1].
Helen Hughes current research focus is on the development problems facing the Pacific Island nations and remote Indigenous Australian communities in Australia.
[edit] Books
Helen Hughes has written, edited or co-authored at least 18 books on topics such as employment, economic development, international trade and investment, Australian foreign policy and migration, including:
The Political Economy of Nauru (1964); Prospects for Partnership (1973); Policies for Industrial Progress in Developing Countries (1980); Achieving Industrialization in East Asia (1988)
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[edit] Trivia
In 1980, Helen Hughes appeared as a World Bank Economist on a panel moderated by Robert McKenzie featuring Donald Rumsfeld, Jagdish Bhagwati, and Richard Deason (an IBEW union leader) as part of the Milton Friedman's PBS documentary "Free To Choose"[3].
