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2026 to present: Associate Director, UHERO, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2026 to present: Associate Professor with tenure, UHERO, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2025 to present: Productivity Fellow, The Productivity Institute, United Kingdom
2022 to present: Co-editor, Spatial Economic Analysis
2021 to present: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
2020 to present: Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University

2021 to 2026: Assistant Professor, tenure track, UHERO, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2016 to 2021: Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Department of Economics, Curtin University, Australia
2014 to 2016: Economist, Australian Energy Market Commission
2014: Senior Research Officer, TransGrid (electricity transmission network business)
2012 to 2013: Visiting Researcher during doctoral study, London School of Economics and Australian National University
2009 to 2012: Economist, Covec, Auckland
2005 to 2009: Telecommunications Policy Analyst for the New Zealand Government, Regulatory Manager for a telecommunications service provider, and Consultant at Deloitte

2015: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand
2009: Master of Management Studies in Economics, 1st Class Honours, University of Waikato, New Zealand
2006: Bachelor of Management Studies with Honours in Economics, 1st Class Honours, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Board Member, Oʻahu Workforce Development Board, 2026 to present
Tourism and Gaming Working Group, State of Hawaiʻi, 2025 to present
Hawaiʻi State Planning Act Phase 2 Task Force, 2025 to present
Shadow Joint Analysis Development Panel, Department for Transport, United Kingdom, 2024 to present
Editorial Board, Reaching Regions, 2023 to present
Best Referee Award, Spatial Economic Analysis, Regional Studies Association, 2020

19 journal articles and other peer-reviewed publications, published or forthcoming
16 journal editorials as co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis
19 research reports for governments, agencies and foundations
Grant funding as principal investigator or co-investigator across Hawaiʻi, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand