Dr Antonia Settle

Antonia Settle is a political economist and Lecturer at Monash University in the Politics and International Relations division. She is also AHURI Centre Director at Monash. Antonia joins Monash from Melbourne University, where she held a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Melbourne Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Antonia’s research focuses on households and the distribution of risk between households, the state and markets. Following her PhD research on household risk and reforms in money and central banking, Antonia’s research has explored household risk in relation to financial risk in superannuation, climate risk and housing and home insurance. Antonia has experience working with HILDA and other survey data, real estate data and hazard maps as well as qualitative household and stakeholder interviews. Her research is published in academic journals such as New Political Economy, the Review of International Political Economy and Ecological Economics and she has a book published by Cambridge University Press.

Antonia has a PhD from the University of Sydney’s Political Economy department, a Graduate Certificate in Economics at La Trobe University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from RMIT University.