Speakers

Carl is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne and consults to international organisations and national governments on projects related to environmental-economic accounting. His work in this area extends from his role, from 2010-2013, as Editor of the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) in which he led the drafting and preparation of the SEEA. The SEEA includes an international statistical standard covering all aspects of environmental-economic accounting at the national level and encompasses significant advances in describing accounting for ecosystems.

Carl's background for this work is a 19 year career with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, with experiences across a range of topics within economic statistics including quarterly national accounts and GDP measurement, productivity and capital stock analysis, financial sector output, balance sheets, tourism satellite accounts, natural resource accounting, composite leading indicators and price indexes.

Carl has held executive roles as head of the ABS National Accounts Branch from 2003 to 2008, and as Regional Director of the Victorian ABS Office from 2008 to 2010. He also worked for 3 years with the OECD in Paris on economic data and sustainable development indicators.