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Australian economist and public servant
A.K.A.
David William Roy Gruen, David W. R. Gruen, David William Gruen
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
31 August 1954(Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
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Education:
Australian National University
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
University of Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, East of England, United Kingdom
Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Haileybury College
Berwick, Melbourne, Australia
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Australian National University
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Department of the Treasury
Australia
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
New Jersey, USA
Reserve Bank of Australia
Australia
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia
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The details
Biography
David William Gruen AO FASSA (born 31 August 1954) is an Australian statistician and mathematician currently serving as Australian Statistician of Australian Bureau of Statistics since 11 December 2019. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Economic and Australia's G20 Sherpa at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He previously held as the executive director of the Macroeconomic group of Australian Treasury and was the head of the Economic Research Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1998 to 2002.
Gruen was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Australia Day Honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2023.