About me
Tom is a policy wonk, regulatory economist, and closet creative who loves to wrangle wicked problems at the interface of law, micro-economics and tech. Tom is currently a PhD candidate (first cohort) in the School of Cybernetics, College of Systems & Society at the Australian National University (ANU). Tom is exploring issues around the emergence of greener, smarter, cyber-physical buildings and the role of transition intermediaries—building rating/certification systems and Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) benchmarking platforms—in sensing, shaping, steering and scaling these critical systems for people, planet and profit. Prior to co-designing and graduating from the first cohort of the Master of Applied Cybernetics (at the former 3AI or Agency, Autonomy and Assurance Institute), Tom was an experienced consultant and senior public servant in the economic analysis of law and public policy. Tom advised on competition/antitrust matters, regulatory analysis/reform and digital transformation/service design matters. As Vice President of the Economic Society of Australia (Victoria), he founded and co-curated a polling platform (now, ESA-Conversation National Economic Poll) for gauging and transmitting the expert consensus of 50+ eminent economists on topical policy issues. Tom was recognised as the Society’s 2020 Honorary Fellow.
Tom holds degrees in: M.Applied Cybernetics (Commendation, ANU); European Master of Law & Economics (U.Bologna, U.Hamburg & U.Rotterdam); B.Laws (Hons, U.Melb); B.Commerce (Hons, U.Melb), Dip Modern Languages (Chinese, U.Melb).
