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Flavio Romano

Contents 1.	Career 2.	Published works 3.	Book reviews 4.	External Links

Career Flavio Romano (born 23 January 1971) is an Australian economist and published author.

His 2006 publication of the economic study Clinton & Blair: The Political Economy of the Third Way submits the economic policies of the Clinton Administration in the United States and the Blair Government in the United Kingdom to extensive analysis to find their ‘Third Way’ entirely consistent with neoclassical principles rather than the claimed ‘new social democratic agenda’.

Armed with a nose for topical policy debates, in 2008 Flavio was appointed inaugural Senior Economist with Infrastructure Australia – the Australian Government’s premier infrastructure agency. In that role he advised the Australian and State governments on the major infrastructure policy reforms necessary to address the strategic economic challenges facing the nation. These include leading the Australian Government’s comprehensive review of infrastructure finance and funding, Infrastructure Finance Reform (2011, and its award winning policy review, Building Australia’s Future (2009), that secured the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) agreement to a new streamlined approvals process for major infrastructure projects throughout Australia.

Redeploying his sense for contentious policy debates, Flavio was appointed inaugural Principal Regulatory Economist with Telstra during the unfolding of the National Broadband Network. In this role, Flavio provides the company with strategic economic advice relating to pricing, regulation and acquisitions in the dynamic telecommunications sector.

Flavio holds a PhD in Economics and Finance from the University of New South Wales, and speaks fluent English and Italian and conversational French.

Published works

Books & Reports

(2006) Clinton & Blair: The Political Economy of the Third Way (Routledge: New York and London). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415378581/

(2008) “Clinton & Blair: The Economics of the Third Way” in Bini, P. and Tusset, G. (eds.) Theory and Practice of Economic Policy: Tradition and Change: Selected Papers from the 9th AISPE Conference (Franco Angeli: Milan).

(2009) Building Australia’s Future: A Review of Approval Processes for Major Infrastructure: A Report to the Infrastructure Working Group of the Council of Australian Governments, www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/publications/files/COAG_IWG_MIAP_Report_June_2009.pdf, Infrastructure Australia, Sydney, June.

(2012) Infrastructure Finance and Funding Reform www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/publications/files/IFWG_Report_FINAL.pdf, Infrastructure Australia, Sydney, April.

2006) “Clinton and Blair: The Economics of the Third Way”, Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Winter, Volume 10, Number 2: pp. 79-94. http://epubs.scu.edu.au/jesp/vol10/iss2/5/

Book Reviews

G. Ietto-Gillies (2010) “Clinton & Blair: The Political Economy of the Third Way”, Review of Social Economy, 68(3): pp. 371-374. http://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rsocec/v68y2010i3p371-374.html

External Links

Routledge Publishers National Library of Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way