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Overview

Robin’s research and teaching interests revolve around strategic behaviour, whether in markets, between nations, within government or in negotiations and contracting.

In her academic career, Robin analysed the implications of various market structures on market power. She studied the impact of labour unions on international trade, the impact of market structure on innovation, and the costs and benefits of outsourcing and contract design. Most recently, she has been writing a textbook on negotiation.

She has consulted for several NSW State Government Departments, including Treasury, Ageing and Disability, Transport, Community Services, for the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and ADFA. She has been director of several executive leadership programs, for Rio Tinto, Westpac, AMP Capital Investors, Telstra Enterprise and Government, Tyco Flow Control, Luxottica and others.  She has presented on executive development programs for Optus, Westpac, the Australian Federal Police and the FBI, IBM Australia New Zealand. She was Director of AGSM’s Consortium program, which brought together leading Australian companies such as NAB, OneSteel, HP, CSL, Queensland Rail, Theiss, Freehills and Australia Post. She has done private consulting for the Pharmacy Guild, PBL, Macquarie Bank, Cochlear and Rabo Bank, among others.  She is also the author of the Australian adaptation of the best-selling American macroeconomics text, Principles of Macroeconomics by Greg Mankiw.

Robin won the AGSM Alumni Teaching Award in 2005.  She has been Head of Cluster of Economics at the AGSM and Director of the Masters of Commerce at the Australian School of Business. She is currently a visiting professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University, writing a book on negotiation strategies and consulting to various companies.  She recently headed a study tour of best practice organisations overseas, visiting Goldman Sachs, Credit Agricole, Microsoft and Cisco, among others, for AMP Capital Investors.

Career highlights:

• Visiting Professor, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, 2008-present
• Director, Masters Commerce Program, Australian School of Business, UNSW, 2006-2008
• Associate Professor, Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW, 1997-2008
• Research Associate, Centre for International Economics, 1996
• Lecturer, University of New South Wales, 1985-96
• Research Assistant, US Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 1978-79
• Research Assistant, President Carter’s Council on Wage and Price Stability in Washington DC, 1977-78

Education:

B.A. (Honors in Economics and Political Science), Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA

M.S. (in International Trade and Development Economics), University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, USA

PhD (in International Trade Theory), University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia