Dan Andrews

Dan Andrews is currently Head of the Growth, Competitiveness and Regulation Division in the OECD Economics Department, where he leads teams to analyze the implementation of structural policies and their implications for economic growth. Prior to that, he was a founding member of the e61 Institute – a big data data-driven thinktank in Australia – and inaugural Research Director and Head of Policy Engagement. Between 2018 and 2020, Dan was the Chief Adviser on Structural Reform and Head of Macroeconomic Policy Division at the Australian Treasury, where he also served as Co-Chair of the OECD Global Forum on Productivity and Australian delegate to the Working Party No 1 on Macroeconomic and Structural Policy and OECD Economic Policy Committee. Dan first joined the OECD Economics Department in 2009 and has led empirical research at the intersection of potential growth and structural policy. Dan began his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1999 and undertook graduate studies at Harvard University.