Ian Castles

Ian Castles is a a Visiting Fellow at the Asia School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, Canberra.

Since first airing criticisms of the Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenarios at a workshop convened by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (AATSE) in April 2002 he has been a prominent of the IPCC.

According to his biographical note "he was formerly Australian Statistician (1986-94) and Secretary, Australian Department of Finance (1979-86). After his retirement from the Australian Public Service in 1994 he was successively Executive Director and Vice President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1995-2000). He is a former President of the International Association of Official Statistics and was elected a Member of the International Statistical Institute in 1992."

In recent time he has appeared at events hosted by the conservative think-tanks, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and Centre for Independent Studies. "Following an invitation from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in December 2002, Mr. Castles elaborated on criticisms he had previously made of the Panel's emissions scenarios at a meeting of an IPCC Expert Group in Amsterdam in January 2003," his biographical note for a 2003 IPA seminar stated. [1]

An Australian National University profile lists his research interests and expertise as being "information requirements of public policy; economic growth and the environment; global distribution of income and output; history of economic thought." [2]

Publications

• "Reporting on Human Development: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics" in Facts and Fancies of Human Development, Ian Castles (ed.), Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2000
• "IPCC SRES Revisited" (with David Henderson) in Energy and Environment, (March 2003)

Contact information

P.O. Box 4226,
Kingston, ACT, 2604
Australia
Phone:61 2 6295 7814
Email:ian.castles AT anu.edu.au

External links

• Institute of Public Affairs, "People & Associates Ian Castles, accessed May 2006. (Cached copy of file).
• Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, "Ian Castles", accessed May, 2006.
• Radio National Counterpoint program,"The Stern Review - A Response", accessed Feb 2007

Articles By Castles

• Ian Castles, "Climate work built on unsound economics", Australian Financial Review, February 7, 2004.