Our people

Professor Lin Crase

School of Economics
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interests: Applied economics – Water policy formulation and implementation in Australia and India

Dr Jayanath Ananda

School of Economics
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interests: Applied economics – Institutional design for improved management

Dr John Bevacqua

School of Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interests: Law – the role of public authority in water policy

Professor Harry Clarke

School of Economics
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interests: Economics – The impacts of climate change on water policy and infrastructure

Dr Bethany Cooper

School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interests: Economics – Marketing/Economics – Incentives and compliance behaviour with water using norms

Professor Ben Gawne 

Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre
Background and interests: Ecology – Shaping policy to account for ecological trade-offs

Dr Suzanne O’Keefe

School of Economics
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interests: Economics/Management - Individual decision making and institutional design of water trusts

Dr Francine Rochford

School of Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Background and interest: Law – Rights and water law

Mr Andrew Skewes 

Director, Bendigo Campus, La Trobe University
Background and interests: Economics – Water resource policy and administration, including governance of water enterprises