Allan LaytonProfessor Allan Layton, BEcon. (Hons), MEcon., PhD, received his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 1982. Since then he has held academic posts at La Trobe University, Griffith University, Macquarie University, Columbia University in the SA, the University of Queensland, and the Queensland University of Technology (where he was Head of School of Economics and Public Policy, from 1992 to 1995, and then Head of School of Economics and Finance, from 1995 to 2005). Since 2006 he has been at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and, in mid-2013, completed a seven-year period as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law. He continues at USQ as Professor of Economics and his research and teaching interests span international business-cycle analysis, financial and monetary economics, macroeconomic policy and applied econometrics. Read More Read Less