Dr John Edwards is an appointed representative of Cbus and is a Director on the Cbus Board. Dr Edwards has completed a five-year term as a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2016 and was the Chief Economist for Australia and New Zealand for the global financial group, HSBC. Earlier he had been a Principal Economic Advisor to the Treasurer and then Prime Minister, Paul Keating. John is a non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University, and a member of the Board of CEDA. Prior to joining the RBA board, he headed economic planning and development for the Kingdom of Bahrain. He holds a Ph.D and M.Phil (Economics) from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University.