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Professor Chris Berg
Chris Berg is a Professor of Economics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Professor Berg is one of Australia’s most prominent voices for free markets and individual liberty, and a leading global authority on regulation, technological change, and civil liberties. He is a highly experienced research leader specialising in the creation and development of large high impact research teams.
He is the author of twelve books, including (American Institute for Economic Research, 2020), (Edward Elgar, 2019), and (Melbourne University Press, 2016). He has published more than 30 peer reviewed papers including papers in Management Science, Research Policy, the Journal of Institutional Economics, the Australian Journal of Political Science, and Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.
He is deeply involved in public policy in Australia and globally. He has appeared in front of more than twenty government and parliamentary inquiries. His research has been cited in dozens of tabled Commonwealth parliamentary reports. He was a member of the Advisory and then Steering Committee of the Australian Government’s National Blockchain Roadmap between 2019 and 2022, and co-chaired the Roadmap’s working group into the use of blockchain for identity and credentials.