Stephen Kirchner, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, is a research fellow at Australia's Centre for Independent Studies. An expert in monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets, and trade economics, Mr. Kirchner was an economist with Action Economics, LLC and a former director of economic research with Standard & Poor's Institutional Market Services, based in Sydney and Singapore. He has also worked as an advisor to members of the Australian House of Representatives and Senate.

Mr. Kirchner holds a BA (Hons) from the Australian National University, a Master of Economics (Hons) from Macquarie University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales. He blogs at www.institutional-economics.com and is active on Twitter (@insteconomics).