Ian Castles
Ian Castles is a statistician who after retiring form working for the Australian government has become a critic of the emissions scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
He is now a Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
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]
A 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]
Contact information
P.O. Box 4226,
Kingston, ACT, 2604
Australia
Phone:61 2 6295 7814
Fax:61 2 6257 2886
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.
Articles By Castles
- Ian Castles, "Climate work built on unsound economics", Australian Financial Review, February 7, 2004.
