Luci Ellis has big shoes to fill

Tuesday 11 July 2023

Bill Evans will be missed:

“Westpac Banking Corp.’s Bill Evans will switch out of the chief economist role he has held for more than 30 years and be replaced by Reserve Bank Assistant Governor Luci Ellis, in a significant change for both institutions.”

Bill has been the leading mainstream economic prognosticator of the era. He was never afraid to break with convention and make bold calls.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.