Alastair Furnival
Partner
Alastair Furnival has a background in public policy, economics and political strategy. Prior to co-founding Evaluate, Alastair was Chairman of a leading public affairs firm, a Vice-President at Boston-based Charles River Associates, and regional chief economist for a multinational food company.
Alastair has been an advisor to Federal and State Governments, including as a Chief of Staff to health and ageing Ministers in the Howard and Abbott Governments.
His practice is in two areas: the efficiency of social policy finance, including health, ageing, education and housing; and the dynamics of domestic and international markets, in which he has provided expert counsel on questions as diverse as competition policy, supply chain development, intellectual property regulation and the operation of free trade agreements. On the latter, he has extensive experience not only in Australia but also in China, Indonesia and other parts of Asia and the Pacific.
In the social policy sector, Alastair specialises in the development of novel modelling approaches to complex questions, bringing together microeconomic analysis with game theory. He is a member of the International Health Economics Association and has a particular focus on optimising the mix of public and private finance for health goods.
Alastair holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and a Master of Commerce from the University of Sydney as well as a Master of Arts from Franciscan University. He sits on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Journal of Public Affairs and is a Member of the Economics Roundtable of Research Australia. Alastair teaches economics at Australian Catholic University, is a Senior Fellow at the University’s PM Glynn Institute, and a Fellow of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge.