Dr Craig Emerson

Independent Reviewer,
Food and Grocery Code of Conduct

Dr Craig Emerson is an eminent economist with 40 years’ experience in public policy, politics and public service. He is Managing Director of Emerson Economics Pty Ltd. He is Director of the APEC Study Centre at RMIT University, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Member of the Trade Minister’s Trade 2040 Taskforce and a columnist with the Australian Financial Review.

Dr Emerson was Australia’s Minister for Trade from 2010 to 2013. Prior to that he was Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs.

In 2024, Dr Emerson was appointed Independent Reviewer of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct. Dr Emerson was economic, trade and environmental adviser to Prime MinisterBob Hawke in the 1980s.