Nils De Jager Email and Phone Number

Nils is an Assistant Director in the Foreign Investment Division of The Treasury. He has been a senior economist in various Australian Government departments: Home Affairs, Employment, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Industry, Science and Innovation, Finance, the Australian Taxation Office, and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Before emigrating to Australia, he worked as a private sector economist/academic at the Bureau for Economic Research—one of the oldest research institutes in South Africa affiliated with the University of Stellenbosch—delivering economic forecasting services for major South African corporations and policy makers. He was the principal author of a number of national business surveys, and authored the Consumer Confidence Index of South Africa. He also worked as an economist in central banking at the SA Reserve Bank, specialising in monetary and money market analysis, and compiling national monetary aggregates and credit statistics. He has delivered research papers at a number of national and international conferences in South Africa, Singapore and Australia.Nils has worked as a consultant at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, France, coordinating a flagship publication, STI Outlook. He served as the Australian Delegate at the Committee for Science and Technology Policy in Paris. He was an expert panelist for the Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (www.spi.pt), working on a European Commission Innovation Review of China.Nils is an alumnus of the IMF, completing modelling courses in financial and fiscal programming and monetary analysis in Washington D.C. as well as studying at the Centre for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England in the United Kingdom.