Andrew Leigh
Australian economist and politician
Andrew Leigh is an Australian economist and Labor politician who has written many books. He was a professor of economics before entering parliament.
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Australian Born 1972 in Sydney, Australia
About Andrew Leigh
Andrew Leigh is a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives, first elected in 2010. He represented Fraser until 2016 and has held the seat of Fenner since then. Before politics, he held an economics professorship at the Australian National University. He earned a PhD in Public Policy at Harvard, after studying Arts and Law at Sydney University with first class honors. The Economic Society of Australia gave him its Young Economist Award, and he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. His books include Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World and The Shortest History of Economics. BookBits has his book How Economics Explains the World. Outside work, he races in Ironman triathlons, runs marathons and hosts a podcast on living well.