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Dr Kelly is one of Australia’s leading academic authorities on the distribution of household wealth. Author of the book, ‘Australian Trends in Wealth Inequality’ he has published over 100 journal articles or research reports on superannuation, wealth, savings, retirement incomes, intergenerational transfers, and the economic cost of illness. As a Chief Investigator he won funding for a number of competitive Australian Research Council and National Health & Medical Research Council grants.

Since 2006 he has been the Director, of Kelly Research, a research-only position. Dr Kelly successfully developed complex microsimulation models and utilised them in wealth research for various governments and many private and public organisations. He is a strong advocate for changes to the retirement income system.

His research has been mainly undertaken in collaboration with The University of Sydney, Curtin University’s Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and University of Canberra’s National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling resulting in over 100 publications or report.

Previously his research focussing on the social and economic circumstances of Australian households included: authoring many AMP.NATSEM Income & Wealth reports; the Brotherhood of St Laurence report which influenced government changes to the Age Pension; pioneered the publishing of wealth distribution of Australians; managed the on-time implementation of Youth Allowance at Centrelink – a $30 Million project which involved the development of business requirements, indexing and migration of over 200,000 Austudy records from a different department, testing, training, and user assurance; and he managed a review of funding for non-government schools.

He is an ex-senior military officer and public servant with experience in project management, strategic performance measurement, business analysis, data analysis, programming, training and systems management.

Dr Kelly has authored 70 peer reviewed papers, a book chapter and 8 commissioned reports. In the past five years, he has had 56 publications – 51 peer reviewed papers and 5 commissioned reports. He has attracted about $5 million in research funding including three NHMRC Partnership Project grants (APP1113895, APP1055037, APP1146134). Many of his papers are co-authored with the GenIMPACT team and he has been a collaborator in several grants.