David Stephan
Senior Advisor at Reserve Bank of Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stephan is a senior advisor at the Reserve Bank of Australia with roughly two decades of experience designing and implementing macroeconomic and fiscal models across government and international institutions. He led the World Bank’s flagship macrostructural model used by over 100 economists, built practical forecasting tools (EViews, XML/PHP, Excel interfaces) and provided hands-on capacity building for central banks and finance ministries globally. His career blends high-level policy advice—from productivity and structural budget balance work at Treasury to climate-change modelling—with technical econometric craftsmanship in STATA, Matlab, R and Stan. David holds an MPA from Princeton and has published on macro topics, combining academic rigour with operational forecasting deliverables. He is bilingual in English and Spanish, and unusually for senior advisers, retains a strong developer mindset—authoring code and user-friendly tools that translate complex models into actionable forecasts.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMaster of Public Administration (MPA), Economics and Public Policy, Master of Public Administration (MPA), Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University
Github Skills (4)
r-package5
tidy4
statistics4
time-series2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MacroDave/NAIRU
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
MacroDave/MVFStan
Sep 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 5 years 6 months
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