Ian Castles

Male, Deceased Person

1935 – 2010

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Who was Ian Castles?

Ian Castles AO OBE was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance, the Australian Statistician, and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Castles was born in Kyneton, Victoria and educated at state schools in Sale, Wesley College, Melbourne and Melbourne University. in 1954, he joined the Australian Public Service in the archives division of the National Library of Australia, then located in Melbourne, and moved to Canberra in 1957. He joined the Treasury in 1958.

He was also Executive Director and Vice President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and President of the International Association of Official Statistics.

He was a contributor to Online Opinion, appeared at events hosted by the Institute of Public Affairs and Centre for Independent Studies, and published papers with The Lavoisier Group, a global warming skeptic organisation. Ian Castles was known for his criticism of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, particularly its Special Report on Emissions Scenarios.

His interests included research into the information requirements for public policy and the history of economic thought.

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Born
Feb 20, 1935
Australia
Died
Aug 2, 2010

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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