Dr Jeffrey Wilson

Dr Jeffrey D. Wilson is the Australian Industry Group’s Director of Research and Economics, where he leads the economics team and provides strategic direction in developing its research program, service delivery and policy activities. Over a fifteen-year career he has delivered a wide range of policy research to government, business and civil society partners in Australia and abroad. 

He was previously a Research Fellow with the Perth USAsia Centre at the University of Western Australia.

Dr Wilson is a political scientist, who specialises in economic regionalism and resource/energy politics in the Asia-Pacific. He consults for governments in Australia and the region on trade, energy and security policy issues; and is a sought-after expert commentator on Asian affairs in local and international media.

He was the inaugural winner of the Australian Institute of International Affairs’ Boyer Prize (2012) for his work on Chinese mining investment in Australia.

He is a faculty member of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, where he is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy.