Professor Fiona M. Haslam McKenzie

Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie is Director of the AHURI Western Australia Research Centre, a joint venture between Curtin and Murdoch Universities, and the Acting Executive Director of the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. She is working on several projects, including the provision of housing in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, housing affordability in sea change and tree change communities, and housing around transport oriented development.

Fiona was educated in Western Australia and the United States and has a varied academic background including a PhD in political geography, researching the effects of demographic and economic change on rural communities in Western Australia. She has extensive experience in population and socio-economic change, regional economic development and analysis of regional and urban social indicators. She has published widely and undertaken work for the corporate and small business sectors as well as all three tiers of government, both nationally and in Western Australia.

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