Stephen Halmarick was appointed to the Chief Economist role in April 2020 – having been the Head of the Global Economic & Markets Research team since January 2018. Stephen has 38 years’ experience as a financial markets economist. He previously held the position of Chief Economist for Colonial First State Global Asset Management and prior to that was Co-Head of Economic and Market Analysis at Citigroup Australia/New Zealand. Stephen was Chair of the Australian Business Economists for nine years (2008-2017) and has been a Director on the Commonwealth Bank Group Super Board since 2016. Stephen has a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and is qualified as a Director thorough the AICD.