The Crawford School of Economics and Government[1] is a research intensive policy school within the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University[2] which focuses on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The school was named after Sir John Crawford[3], and its current director is Professor Tom Kompas. The Crawford School has disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise in public policy, economics, political science and environmental management, and area expertise in Pacific Island countries and Asia (particularly China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Korea).
In December 2009, the School moved to a new mini-campus overlooking Lake Burley Griffin. The new Crawford School building is located on Acton Peninsula adjacent to Old Canberra House and the WEH Stanner building. The new building, designed by Tanner Architects links the two existing buildings to provide consolidated accommodation for staff and students of the School, surrounding a courtyard forming a mini-campus. A new extension to the Crawford School is currently under construction and is due for completion in 2012.
Born in Sydney in 1910, Sir John Crawford's policy influence began early when in 1942 he joined the Department of War Organisation of Industry, and in 1943 was appointed Director of Research at the Department of Post-War Reconstruction (Australia). After the war his influence expanded in 1945 as Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, then Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Agriculture, and later Secretary of the Department of Trade. In this capacity he was a key architect in the reshaping of Australia's trade relationships with both the United Kingdom and Japan.
Beyond his many specific policy contributions, Sir John argued consistently for very high standards of public administration. He was a pioneering advocate of the need for strong and powerful analytic capabilities in civil servants. In reviewing Sir John's contributions to public administration, John Uhr has described this as the "Crawford doctrine".
In 1960 Sir John took a different path, joining the Australian National University as inaugural Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) and Professor of Economics, later as Vice-Chancellor in 1968 and Chancellor in 1976. His leadership of the University left a long legacy of scholarly excellence and public contribution. Mirroring the aspirations of our School today, his influence on policy and drive to engage Australia with Asia and the Pacific continued from within the University.
From his university base Sir John played a foundational role in the establishment of the Australian Development Assistance Agency, the Industries Assistance Commission, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Among the many long-term projects he pursued was the promotion of trade relations around the Asia Pacific region and development assistance work, especially in India (through technological innovation in agricultural) and Papua New Guinea.
In addition to doctoral studies [4], students can undertake master, diploma or certificate studies at the Crawford School[5].
At ANU, Graduate Studies Research Fields bring together doctoral students and staff with common research interests who may be located in different academic areas. Within the Crawford School students can choose to enrol in one of the following four graduate research fields[6]:
Within Crawford School, academics have clustered their research into 11 centres [7] to leverage research synergies and create opportunities to maximise its impact on targeted audiences. These organised research units are funded independently through grants, consultancies or other contracts.
The Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP) is a facility for sponsoring and promoting collaborative research between Australian and Indonesian scholars.
AIGRP aims to link researchers from both countries in a coordinated effort to generate firmer intellectual foundations for tackling some of Indonesia's most basic developmental challenges and to disseminate the results to inform policy action as well as wider scholarly and public discussion in Indonesia and Australia. In so doing, AIGRP also seeks to strengthen the capabilities of Indonesian and Australian universities and research institutions, to help build a new generation of scholars in both Australia and Indonesia on these issues and to contribute to the enrichment of the bilateral relationship between Australia and Indonesia.
AIGRP is an Australian Government Initiative, managed by the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University.
The Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) conducts research to explore and improve understanding of the economies and economic policy processes in Australia and Japan and both countries’ strategic interests in the Asia Pacific economy. Its policy-oriented areas of interest cover developments in regional economic cooperation and integration and encompass research on trade, finance, macroeconomics and structural and regulatory reform, as well as international economic relations.
Professor Jenny Corbett was appointed AJRC Executive Director in August 2004.
AC BEE's mission is to lead Australia and the region in biosecurity and environmental economics research, with an emphasis on policy applications. Their specialty is economic approaches to protecting the environment and plant, animal and human health from invasive species. They also provide broad expertise in applied research on environmental economics and natural resource management as a whole. AC BEE maintains a central focus on engaging with and assisting the public policy process.
AC BEE is an organized research unit of the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, and its Foundation Director is Professor Tom Kompas.
CDI was established by the Australian government to support the efforts of new democracies in the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen their political systems. Their core budget is provided by AusAID, Australia’s Agency for International Development, and they are based in the Crawford School of Economics and Government in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University in Canberra and draw from the considerable intellectual capital of Australia's leading graduate tertiary institution.
CDI’s mandate is to strengthen two key institutions of representative democracy -- parliamentary governance and political parties – in the emerging democracies of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. A fundamental focus is the link between parliamentary and party structures and the broader development process.
CDI aims to improve governance and political practice in partner countries via intensive, targeted programs on parliamentary leadership, the operation of political parties, the reform of democratic institutions, the representation of women, and other issues relating directly to improving the effectiveness and quality of national parliaments, parties, and politicians themselves. Dr Ben Reilly was appointed Director of CDI in 2006.
CCEP aims to provide insights on the economics of climate change and its implications for public policy. This includes the analysis of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and the anthropogenic factors driving climate change, as well as adaptation to climate change impacts. The focus is on Australia and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. CCEP is a network of researchers who are experts in many different aspects of climate change economics and policy analysis who share an active interest in informing public policy. Dr Frank Jotzo is director of the centre.
The goal of CWEEP is to provide the world’s best technical and public policy insights into: managing water under climate variability and climate change, urban water supply and demand management, water markets, water pricing, trans-boundary water governance, and water management practices that promote environmental sustainability. Professor Quentin Grafton is the Director of CWEEP. Professor Grafton is also a member of a prominent environmental lobby group, the Wentworth Group of Scientists,and has recently used his position to advocate in favour of diversion of water within the Murray and Darling Rivers to environmental flows at the expense of irrigators. <see for example his submission to the mdba at www.mdba.gov.au under submissions and his listing as a member of the Wentworth Group on their website.>
The China Economy and Business Program is home to the strongest concentration of research outside China on the Chinese economy. The program a is joint undertaking of the Crawford School and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies with the program administered by the Crawford School. CEBP coordinates and projects into relevant external communities the research of ANU-based scholars on the Chinese economy and business.
The CEBP incorporates skills in economic and policy analysis to identify the most important trends in China’s economic development and assess their implications. The program draws on expertise from across the ANU and links to an extensive network of the region’s most influential specialists on China. Associate Professor Ligang Song is the Director of the CEBP.
The Crawford School houses both the secretariats for the East Asia Forum (EAF)[8] and the East Asia Bureau of Economic Research (EABER). EAF brings together Australia’s expertise on East Asia while EABER brings together the top economic research institutes and researchers in the region. Together, they promote dialogue and research on the most important economic, political and other issues in the region and Australia’s position in the region. In addition EABER organises several high-level conferences, including the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series.
EABER and EAF were officially launched in Australia by the then Treasurer, Peter Costello, in the Menzies library at the ANU in Canberra on 17 October 2006. EABER was launched internationally by Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Boediono, in Bogor in 2005.
EABER is directed by Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale.
The goal of the Environmental Economics Research Hub is to address Australia’s major environmental management challenges with integrated economic research that provides immediate and continuing policy impacts. It brings together leading environmental economists, scientists, educators and policy makers to face the challenges of sustainable water use, soil loss and salinity, biodiversity loss and adaptation to climate change. The Hub’s integrated research, modelling and capacity-building encompasses the establishment of markets to achieve environmental goals, environmental valuation and the assessment and development of government intervention in environmental management. It will provide end users with the tools, understanding and framework to promote environmental sustainability in Australia.
The Environmental Economics Research Hub is based at the Crawford School of Economics and Government under the Direction of Professor Jeff Bennett. Funding for the Hub is provided by the Department of Environment and Water Resources under the Commonwealth Environment Research Facility.
The Crawford School is recognised nationally and internationally for its leadership on policy, research and outreach activities on Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands. Dr Peter Larmour leads the Pacific Policy Project within the Crawford School. Researchers work on issues of economics governance in the South Pacific region.
The Pacific Economic Bulletin[9] journal, outreach program and annual academic conference are funded by Australia Government’s development agency AusAID.
The Parliamentary Studies Centre mediates academic research on parliamentary studies (with a particular interest in the comparative studies of strengthening of parliamentary institutions) and welcomes expressions of interest from researchers seeking assistance with such research and those seeking to participate. The PSC is Directed by Dr John Uhr.
The Vietnamese Policy Project is convened by Dr Suiwah Leung. The current phase of the Crawford School’s work on the Vietnamese economy takes the form of a collective Doctoral Research Project on “The effects of macroeconomic policy, trade policy and financial reform on investment and economic growth in Vietnam”. This will involve 12 or more PhD scholars working on a number of research strands. These include:
It is envisaged that the PhD scholars will be working with a number of academics across the University, including those in the ANU Colleges of Asia and the Pacific, Business and Economics, and Arts and Social Sciences.
Crawford School operates an extensive suite of executive programs that provides customised short course and residential training programs for Australian Government agencies and for governments throughout the Asia-Pacific region [10][11]. The Executive Programs Secretariat is led by Dr Eamond DeCruz.
Crawford Executive Programs manages the Australian Public Service Commission's elite leadership training program called Leading Australia's Future in the Asia-Pacific or LAFIA which has been running since 1994 when created as an initiative of the Keating Labor Government [12]. LAFIA is restricted to the upper Bands II and III (First Assistant Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, CEO and Deputy CEO level officers) of the Australian Public Service. Each year LAFIA conducts study tours of two or three selected Asian countries (2008: India, Thailand and Singapore; 2009: China and South Korea; 2010: Malaysia and Japan). Academic resourcing, introductory dialogues and study tour program itineraries are provided by Crawford Executive Programs in affiliation with counterpart agencies in each country and logistical support by the APSC. In 2005, Crawford also commenced the LAFIA Pacific suite of programs focusing on experiential learning through study tours of key Pacific countries and also delivered in conjunction with the Australian Public Service Commission. Crawford has delivered or continues to deliver executive training programs for agencies such as the Australian Treasury, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Dept of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA), Office of National Assessments (ONA), Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), Dept of Industry, Innovation, Science and Research (DIISR), the Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (NSW ICAC)amongst others.
Crawford Executive Programs has delivered customised residential programs for the China Ministry of Education, China Ministry of Finance, China National Development Reform Commission (NDRC), China Ministry of Commerce, China Scholarship Council (CSC), the Beijing Finance Bureau (BFB, a financial management training program delivered in conjunction with the ACT Chief Minister's office under the Beijing-Canberra Sister City Relationship), China Central Organization Commission, Thai Office of the Civil Service Commission (OCSC), Iraqi Ministry of Trade, Indonesian Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs (MENKO), BAPPENAS, Indonesian Ministry of Finance, Vietnam Central Organization Commission, Vietnam Government Inspectorate (GI), Vietnam Office of Steering Committee Against Corruption (OSCAC), UAE Prime Minister's Office, Iranian Ministry of Health, Taiwan Civil Service Development institute (CSDI) amongst many others.
Customised program offerings are available in areas such as Fiscal Policy and Financial Management, Regulatory Policy and Practice, Policy Development and Evaluation, Program Management and Implementation, Anti-corruption, Public Sector Procurement, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Public-Private Partnerships, Strategic Policy, Services Delivery and Implementation, Decision making in Uncertainty, Viable Systems Analysis and Viable Systems Management (VSM), Industry Policy and innovation, Trade Policy and Negotiation, Macro and Microconomic Policy, Economics of Quarantine, Water and Environmental Economics, Climate Change: Carbon Pricing and Emissions Trading Policy, Futures Analysis and Scenario Planning amongst others. Nearly all Executive Programs are offered by corporate arrangement and only a small number are available by public subscription.
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