Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He is a native of New Zealand and working at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand before completing his PhD in Economics at Oxford University in the UK.

Robert was awarded a Royal Economic Society Junior Fellowship and has pursued research interests at the London School of Economics and Princeton University. Robert’s academic career has also seen him appointed as Director of the PhD Program at Imperial College London Business School, where he was recognized with Best Teacher Prizes and the Rector’s Award for Distinguished Research Excellence. He has since returned to his alma mater in New Zealand. Robert is an Associate at Principal Economics.