CO-FOUNDER, ALPHABETA

Dr Andrew Charlton is co-founder of AlphaBeta, an economic consulting and analytics company based in Sydney and Singapore. He received a Doctorate and Masters in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2008-2010, through the period of the global financial crisis, he served as senior economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Australia and Australia’s senior government official to the G20 economic summits. He has previously worked for the London School of Economics and the United Nations Millennium Project. His research on international economics has been published in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, World Trade Review and World Economy. He is the author of two books, Ozonomics (2007) and Fair Trade for All (2005), co-written with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. In 2011 he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.