Tony Makin is professor of Economics and director of the Griffith APEC Study Centre at Griffith University. He has previously served as an international consultant economist with the IMF Institute based in Singapore and as an economist in the federal departments of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Trade, The Treasury and Prime Minister and Cabinet. He’s also the author of Global Finance and the Macroeconomy and Global Imbalances, Exchange Rates and Stabilization Policy and International Macroeconomics.