The Sport Economist

Tim Harcourt is the Industry Professor and Chief Economist at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance (IPPG) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Sydney, Australia.
Tim is passionate about making economics and international trade accessible to the whole community. He is known for his TV shows The Airport Economist, After the Pandemic, The Great Transformation and most recently Footynomics: The Business of Sport.
Tim is author of seven books on the international economy and two books on the economics of sport.
Before joining UTS he was Professor of Practice at the University of New South Wales and before that held chief economist roles with Austrade, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Fair Work Commission and Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
Tim was educated at the University of Adelaide, Australia, the University of Minnesota, USA, and Harvard University, USA.