Fiona McKenzie The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2023

Fiona McKenzie

Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie Fiona Haslam McKenzie is a Winthrop Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She has expertise in regional economic development with extensive global experience in population and socio-economic change, the agricultural, mining and the oil and gas industries, housing, and analysis of remote, regional and urban socio-economic indicators. She has published widely and undertaken work for all three tiers of government in Australia, the corporate and small business sectors both internationally and in Australia. She is currently the Director of the Centre for Regional Development at the University of Western Australia and the program lead for regional economic development at the Co-operative Research Centre for Transformation in Mining Economies, a national applied-research organisation working across industry and governments, assessing socio-economic preparedness of mining regions and designing re-purposed mining economies. She currently serves as a board member of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority and the Regional Australia Institute and as reference board member for the Western Australian Wheatbelt Regional University Centre.