Professor Lisa Cameron is the James Riady Chair of Asian Economics and Business and Program Director of the Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific group at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She is an empirical micro-economist whose research incorporates the techniques of experimental and behavioural economics so as to better understand human decision-making. Much of her research focuses on policy evaluation - understanding the impacts and behavioural implications of public policy, with a focus on social and economic issues. She is particularly interested in the welfare of disadvantaged and marginalised groups which she researches using survey data, administrative data, lab experiments and randomised controlled trials. Much of her research to date has focused on developing countries, particularly Indonesia and China and she has extensive experience collaborating with agencies such as the World Bank and AusAID (DFAT). She received her PhD in economics in 1996 from Princeton University, is an Affiliated Professor of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the International Economic Association (IEA) and the inaugural director of the Australasian Development Economics Association (ADEA). Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Science and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and featured in media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist and Time Magazine.