Dr. John Piggott Professor of Economics Director, Centre for Pensions and Superannuation University of New South Wales

John Piggott is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Pensions and Superannuation at the University of New South Wales. After graduating with a BA from the University of Sydney, he obtained his PhD from the University of London. He has held research and teaching appointments at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and at the Australian National University, Canberra, and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1992.

Dr Piggott has a long standing interest in issues relating to retirement and pension economics. His publications include more than 60 journal articles and chapters in books, which have appeared in the leading international academic journals as well as in highly cited conference volumes. In addition, he has co-edited a number of volumes placed with prestigious academic publishers, and has co-authored two books, both published by Cambridge University Press. The second of these, on mandatory pension saving, was released late last year. His current interests include retirement benefits and annuitisation, life-cycle asset allocation and insurance, and the role of housing as a retirement asset.

His interest in retirement provision has spread beyond Australia. Internationally, he has consulted with the Government of Mauritius on a World Bank sponsored Pension Reform project, and for the last two years has been working on aging issues with the Government of Japan, Cabinet Office. He has also been involved with pension reform programs in Sri Lanka and India. He is on the editorial board of the new Cambridge journal, The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, and. is a member of the Research Committee of the International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors. He has undertaken contract research with both the OECD and the World Bank.