The ESA  Budget breakfast will be presented by  Dr. John Hawkins and Professor Stephen Bartos.

Dr John Hawkins is a senior lecturer in economics at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics & Society at the University of Canberra. He holds a PhD from ANU and an MSc from the London School of Economics. Before his academic career he was a senior economist in the Reserve Bank and Treasury. He also served as secretary of the Senate Economics Committee. He writes extensively in The Conversation.

Professor Stephen Bartos teaches graduate units in economics and government finance, and writes regularly for The Mandarin and The Conversation.  He is a former senior Australian Government official,  among other things as Deputy Secretary and head of Budget Group in the Department of Finance. More recently, he has served three terms as Parliamentary Budget Officer for NSW, finishing in June 2023 before returning to the University of Canberra.