Emeritus Professor Brian Dollery

Biography

My academic career began in 1976 as a temporary junior lecturer at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. In 1978, I took up a temporary position in the Economics Department at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa and then held this job in a tenured capacity until 1987. In 1985 I taught at East Carolina State University, Greenville N.C., U.S.A. and moved to Australia in February 1988 as a lecturer in the (then) Department of Economics at the University of New England. During a 1991 sabbatical I taught at the University of Cape Town for six months and at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska for a further six months. In 2002, I spent nine months on sabbatical leave teaching at Yokohama National University in Yokohama, Japan. I secured a Hobart Houghton Research Fellowship in the Department of Economics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and spent a month researching at that institution in early 2003. In 2006/07, I spent six months as a Visiting Foreign Scholar at Yokohama National University in Yokohama and a further month at that institution as a Visiting Foreign Scholar in June 2009. From 2010 to 2015 inclusive, I have spent the two-month period (December/January) as a Visiting Researcher at Yokohama National University. In 2016, I spent a five-month sabbatical at Yokohama National University. In 2018/19 I spent a further seven month sabbatical as a Visiting Researcher at Yokohama National University. Over the period September 2022 to September 2023, I was a Visiting Researcher at Yokohama National University. I enjoy drinking beer, nihonshu and wine, as well as cricket and rugby.