Hal Hill, MEc (Monash), PhD (ANU)
H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies and Deputy Convener, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

Email: hal.hill@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Hal Hill the H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific. From 1986 to 1998 he was head of the University's Indonesia Project and for much of this time also edited the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. His current and recent projects include a textbook on the ASEAN economies and papers on Indonesian economic development, the Philippine economy, Indonesian industrialization since the Asian economic crisis, regional (sub-national) development in Indonesia and the Philippines, Indonesian trade policy, the smaller transition economies of Indo China, and the political economy of reform in Southeast Asia. He also teaches a course on the Southeast Asian economies.

Research Interests

The economies of ASEAN, especially Indonesia and The Philippines; industrialization and foreign investment in East Asia; and Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region.

Key Publications

From 2000 he has written a book on the Indonesian economy and co-edited with colleagues in Asia volumes on the Philippine economy, East Timor development issues, the social impacts of the Asian economic crisis, foreign investment and globalization in Asia, East Asia's high-tech drive, and regional development dynamics in the Philippines.

Career Highlights

Head of the ANU Indonesia Project, 1986-1998; visiting appointments at Gadjah Mada University, the University of the Philippines, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the University of Oxford, the Tinbergen Institute, Columbia University, and the International University of Japan; consultant for the Australian Government, the Indonesian Government, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and several United Nations agencies; membership of various advisory boards; participation in conferences/seminars in some 25 countries; on the editorial board of 14 academic journals; occasional op-ed contributor to several Australian and Asian newspapers and magazines.