John Edwards, PhD, is Chief Economist at HSBC. A graduate of Sydney University and George Washington University, he was a journalist for twenty years before becoming a senior economic advisor to treasurer and then prime minister Paul Keating. Edwards began his career in journalism on the Australian Financial Review and was later political correspondent for The Australian and Washington correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1996 John published the best-selling biography, Paul Keating: the inside story. He was awarded the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Fellowship at Curtin University in 2000.
