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Louise Staley
Director, Food and Environment Unit
Ms Louise Staley is Director Food and Environment Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs where she specialises in food policy issues and rural regulation. Ms Staley is recognised as an authority on the impact of regulation on community life and volunteering and has also written extensively on property rights issues affecting rural land use.
Ms Staley has appeared in a variety of print and radio outlets including the Australian Financial Review, The Age, The West Australian, Herald Sun and Radio National.
Prior to joining the IPA she was a portfolio manager at AXA Australia, and head of the global telecommunications research cluster. She worked as an equities analyst specialising in telecommunications, food & beverage and retail stocks. She has a Masters in Public Policy.
Areas of expertise: Agricultural regulation, food policy and obesity, volunteering and social capital, property rights, superannuation
Contact details
Telephone: 0416 125 176
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