Gordon Menzies

Dr Gordon Menzies joined UTS as a Senior Lecturer in Economics in 2003 and has since become an Associate Professor. Since joining UTS he has developed a research program investigating rapid belief changes in markets, with Prof Daniel Zizzo at the University of East Anglia (UK). Together, they won the Arrow Senior Prize for the best paper in Berkeley Electronic Press in 2009.

Over 2007 until 2016 he was the Deputy Director of the UTS Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality. He has managed a large project on financial sector modelling, contributed to the recent Murray Review of the financial system, and taken a key role in the Political Economy of Financial Markets group at Oxford University. His main publications are in the areas of macroeconomics, trade and exchange rates. He has also published on the Economics of the Family, and on the cultural impact of the economic way of thinking.

Gordon completed a BEc(Hons) at the University of New England, after which he joined the Reserve Bank of Australia to work on the Bank's macroeconomic model. He won a Bank scholarship to study at the Australian National University, where he won the Robert Jones Prize for the best Masters student.

After a number of years working in the Reserve Bank of Australia in the Economic Research Department, he won a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake a D Phil at Oxford University. His thesis was on the Asian Financial Crisis, focussing particularly on Indonesia.

He has taught econometrics at UNE, economics at the ANU and was senior Economics Tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford. Since joining UTS he has taught econometrics and international economics.

He won the 2008 UTS individual teaching award, and, a 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for “[challenging] students to understand diverse perspectives, and to see a ‘human’ side to International Economics”.