Prof Gigi Foster - After COVID - What have we learned, and where to from here?
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Gigi Foster is a professor with UNSW's School of Economics who works in diverse fields including education, social influence, time use, lab experiments, behavioural economics, and Australian policy. Named 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia, she publishes in both specialised and cross-disciplinary outlets, and her innovative teaching was awarded a 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
She has filled numerous roles of service to the profession and engages heavily on economic matters with the Australian community, as one of Australia's leading economics communicators, in the media and at live events. She co-founded the think tank Australians for Science and Freedom in 2023, and is an author of dozens of academic articles and several books, including The Great Covid Panic (2021) and Do Lockdowns and Border Closures Serve the "Greater Good"? (2022).
In this talk, Gigi will discuss her two covid-era books and the path forward.
Further information can be found here https://www.scienceandfreedom.org/profile/gigi-foster/ and here https://www.ramsaycentre.org/events/ramsay-lectures/the-great-covid-panic/