Co-founder & Chair

Economics | Industry | Environment

Warwick is an economist, writer and policy analyst. His current professional interests include employment, inclusive and sustainable economic development, democracy, and climate change. He also has a background in evolutionary and conservation biology.

A regular speaker at conferences and in the media, he also publishes opinion pieces in outlets such as The Guardian, the ABC, The Age and The Conversation.

Warwick is also Program Director at the Centre for Policy Development, where he leads a team working on wellbeing economy, an Honorary Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and a founding Director of the Castlemaine Community Investment Cooperative. 

BSc (Hons), BA (philosophy and economics).

Connect with Warwick on LinkedIn or BlueSky @warwicksmith.bsky.social. Warwick’s Blog.