Susan Stone is the Credit Union SA Chair of Economics at UniSA, undertaking research on issues pivotal to the State of South Australia. Prior to joining UniSA, Dr. Stone was a division head at the OECD, a Director for the UNESCAP, a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, and a Research Manager at the Productivity Commission in Melbourne. Her work has been published as national and multinational government reports, edited volumes, and in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Stone holds a PhD in Economics and a Master’s Degree in Business and Finance, from Drexel University in the United States.