Division of Economic and Financial Studies

Kim Hawtrey

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Formal Name: Kim Hawtrey

Personal Title: Associate Professor

Position: Associate Professor

Organisational Unit: Department of Economics

Qualifications: BEc Syd., PhD NSW, FFin

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8504

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8586

Email: khawtrey@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 433

Profile

Associate Professor Kim Hawtrey publishes internationally on banking and finance and has co-authored two books on financial economics.

He was chosen as 2005 AFAANZ/Pearson Finance Lecturer of the Year, a national competitive teaching award. In 2006 he received an Outstanding Teaching Award from Macquarie University.

He was elected a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) in 2003, in recognition of service to the industry.

Dr Hawtrey sits on the editorial board of the Journal of the Australian Society of Securities Analysts (JASSA).

He is a member of the University's Academic Program Committee.

In 2007 Kim received an external collaborative grant of $60,000 from BCS Capital to study the banking sector.
 
In 2005 he was recipient of a $10,000 external collaborative grant from the Australian Bankers Association to research the performance of managed funds.

In 2001 he directed a NSW State Government research grant of $250,000 and subsequently edited a collection of papers on financial models for housing. He chaired the Affordable Housing National Research Consortium, a peak policy committee of CEOs from Australia's leading housing industry bodies.

Kim also publishes on religious perspectives on economics and in 2003 was invited to contribute a paper to the prestigious International Critical Writings in Economics series. In 1999 he was the only Australian invited to contribute to the international reader Religion and Economics.

A/Professor Hawtrey has served on the boards of African Enterprise, Robert Menzies College and the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He has been a consultant to the Department of Housing, Australian Bankers Association, Australian Business Chamber, Auditor General and ACOSS.

He teaches online students worldwide in the Master of International Business, lectures in a Masters program at Nanjing Normal University China and takes a class at the International College of Management Manly. He regularly represents the University in the media with commentary on current issues.

Prior to joining the University Kim Hawtrey was Chief Economist at Colonial State Bank. Before that he spent several years as an Economic Advisor at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

He holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney, a PhD from the University of New South Wales, a Diploma of Biblical Studies with Honours from Moore Theological College, and a Certificate in Monetary Economics from the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa Portugal.