Members Biographies

Prof Flavio Menezes

Flavio Menezes is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics at the University of Queensland (UQ). He serves as Chair of the Queensland Competition Authority and is a member of the NDIA’s Pricing Arrangement Reference Group. He has also been engaged to provide independent strategic advice to the Australian and New Zealand governments on regulatory barriers to the net-zero transformation. Professor Menezes was part of the Expert Panel for the Special Disability Accommodation (NDIS) 2022-2023 price review and served as President of the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) from 2016 to 2018. He was on the advisory board of the Federal Government’s 2019-2020 Deregulation Taskforce.

From 2009 to 2015, Flavio was the Academic Dean of the School of Economics at UQ. He chaired the Research Evaluation Committee for Economics and Commerce during the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation and was a committee member for ERA 2015. He was an elected member of UQ’s Academic Board and its Standing Committee from 2018 to 2021. Before joining UQ in 2006, he was a Professor of Economics and Professor of Regulatory Economics at the Australian National University, where he also served as the founding director of the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics. He was a (part-time) Vice-President at Charles River Associates International in Canberra from 2005 to 2006.

Professor Menezes is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory and was co-editor of the Economic Record from 2016 to 2022. His publications cover the economics of auctions, competition, regulatory economics, industrial organization, and market design.