Present positions: Professor of Economics (Econometrics), University of Western Australia, from 1/1991; Adjunct Professor, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, from 5/1992; Associate Dean (Research), Faculties of Economics & Commerce, Education and Law, University of Western Australia, from 7/1995.

Previous employment: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; University of Manchester, England; Australian National University; Osaka University, Japan; Kyoto University, Japan; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Summary: Michael McAleer's research interests are in theoretical and applied econometrics, methodology and the philosophy of science, macroeconometrics, time series analysis, and the modelling of environmental systems. He has published 81 papers in leading international journals in economics, econometrics and statistics, 34 chapters in books and conference publications, and 24 edited books and special issues of journals. Classical hypothesis testing procedures with which he is associated are widely cited in the literature and are included in many standard econometrics textbooks and computer software packages. He is an Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics (Wiley), a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Economic Surveys (Blackwell), a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, and Associate Editor of Environmental Modelling and Software (Elsevier), and has edited numerous special issues of several international journals. Michael McAleer is included in Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700 to 1995 (third edition), edited by S. James and M. Blaug, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1996.