Jonathan Epstein is an economist

Economist

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 who worked on the implementation and establishment of Australia's

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 sovereign wealth fund

Sovereign wealth fund

A sovereign wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property, precious metals or other financial instruments. Sovereign wealth funds invest globally. Some of them have grabbed attention making bad investments in several Wall Street financial...

, the Future Fund as a senior analyst

Analyst

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 and adviser to the chairman.

He helped with the creation and establishment of the International Forum

Forum

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 of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF), worked for Australia's longest serving Federal Treasurer

Treasurer

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. He now works for ECG Advisory Solutions a specialist financial

FINANCIAL

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 advisory consultancy which specialises in the intersection of business

Business

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, government

Government

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 and the financial markets

Financial market

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. He is a board member of the non-profit body dedicated to finding a cure for Crohn and Colitis disease..

Jonathan is the founder of the Jonnonomics school of Australian economic thought.