EconSearch Staff

Dr Julian Morison

Managing Director; Agricultural and Natural Resource Economist

BAgEc, MEc, MInfEng, PhD

Julian has over 25 years experience in applied economic analysis, particularly related to primary industries, natural resource issues and regional economic development. Julian has undertaken many projects investigating socio-economic, institutional, policy and business dimensions of natural resource management issues. He has also been involved in the development and application of market based instruments for natural resource management.

Julian has experience and expertise in the development of regional, state and national input-output models and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and their application in the analysis of a variety of impact situations. He has experience in the analysis of regional development issues, particularly measuring the employment and value adding impacts of industry growth and decline. He has conducted numerous economic impact analysis consultancies for various firms and government organisations, several of which have involved workshops and seminars on input-output methods, cost benefit analysis and other analytical tools.

Heather Bailey

Consultant; Environmental Economist

BSc, MSc

Heather joined EconSearch in June 2010, and brings 12 years’ experience as an environmental professional in Australia and internationally. She qualified in 1994 in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia (UK), and in 2003 completed an MSc in Environmental Management and Development at the Australian National University in Canberra, specialising in Environmental Economics. Heather was awarded the ANU’s Tiri Tiri Prize for academic excellence.

Her experience has spanned a wide range of environmental management and policy, culminating in her successful management of the South Australian Biodiversity Offset Scheme. This groundbreaking project used a market-based instrument (MBI) to secure biodiversity assets in partnership with agricultural landowners in the Upper South East region of South Australia.

Heather recently completed a project for the City of Onkaparinga analysing the financial and economic implications of the Council’s carbon neutral target for 2013. The modelling and analysis covered the Council’s major categories of emissions, namely vehicles, buildings and street lighting.

Parvin Mahmoudi

Environmental Economist

BEc (Hons), MEc

Parvin has almost ten years teaching and research experience at the City of Playford, CSIRO and the University of Adelaide. She has a range of technical skills in econometrics, economic and statistical analysis, economic modelling and resource economics particularly in non-market valuation technique.

Parvin is currently conducting an economic analysis and cost sharing model of a proposed seawall for the Port Adelaide and LeFevre Peninsula area, undertaking economic assessments of proposed R&D projects for the Seafood Cooperative Research Centre and is preparing a set of regional economic impact statements as part of scenario planning for an innovative response to the water challenge in the Murray Riverina region of NSW.

Lisa Rippin

Resource Economist

BEc, BFin

Lisa is in the process of completing a graduate diploma in economics through the University of New England. Lisa has contributed to the construction and application of input-output models and in preparing and communicating the results of economic impact analyses. She has also undertaken numerous economic evaluations using cost-benefit analysis for a wide range of clients in both the public and private sectors. Lisa has also contributed to a number of projects, with her involvement including undertaking surveys, collating data and results, undertaking economic analysis and preparing written reports.

Since joining EconSearch in 2007, Lisa has contributed to the preparation of economic indicators for all the commercial fisheries of South Australia (including face-to-face survey work), a report on the ecologically sustainable development for the net sector of the Marine Scalefish fishery, economic analyses of levies for the Northern and Yorke, South Australian Murray-Darling Basin and South East Natural Resource Management Boards and various economic impact studies, regional socio-economic profiles and cost benefit analyses.
 

Jennifer Morison

Office Administrator

BA

Jennifer is responsible for office management and administration. She prepares annual operating reports and documentation for the company, prepares cash-flow projections and oversees the company business loan accounts. She is responsible for preparation of invoices and payment of creditors, wages, superannuation and workcover, including monthly remittances of PAYG tax to the ATO, and maintains employee records re tax, superannuation, long service leave and sick leave.

Jennifer also maintains the EconSearch research library collection (both hard copy and electronic documents), as well as the project archives and records, which include client details, stored files, report titles and abstracts. She also oversees EconSearch's operating policies and procedures and maintains the company's various public liability, professional indemnity and general business insurance policies.