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About Jeff Schubert

I am an economist, business consultant, historian, writer and teacher.

I initially graduated in economics but, bored with advanced degree studies, I then turned my attention to history. Unfortunately, having graduated, I discovered that there were few decent jobs for historians—so economics and business it was to be!

After a stint in manufacturing I worked in the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Australian Treasury, the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, and the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Later I was the very high profile Chief Economist of HSBC in Australia. In 1986 Akio Kohno, Chief Economist of Japan’s Daiwa Securities and Professor at Tokyo’s Sophia University, wrote that my monthly “Market Briefing” newsletter was “full of deep insights” into world financial markets.

I first visited Russia in 1991 (in an attempt to see communism before it disappeared). In 1994, an early business associate, Dr. Evgenia Bogatova, then CEO of Russian consultancy firm RBM-Eurokosmos, wrote that I was “distinguished by the impressive ability to combine intellectual disciplines”. (Dr. Bogatova is now a very high-profile Russian businesswomen who argues for accountability in Russian business affairs.)

Between 1996 and 2004, I was Economics and Tax Adviser at a major business association in Australia, and was extensively and very prominently involved in Australian business taxation reform as part of the BCTR (Business Coalition for Taxation Reform).

I then wrote, ‘Dictatorial CEOs & their Lieutenants: Inside the Executive Suites of Napoleon, Stalin, Ataturk, Mussolini, Hitler and Mao.‘

I am also creator and author of “The Little Pink Ant”.

I occassionally post articles on this site about “power”—and it’s uses and abuses.

I also more regularly blog about management/leadership issues (both public and private sectors) in the “Free Trade” column of the Manchester Business School’s online journal “Transforming Management”. The spot is: http://schubert.tm.mbs.ac.uk/

Tudor Rickards, Professor of “Organization Change and Creativity”, Manchester Business School, wrote to me in December, 2009: “I don’t always agreed with what you write, but you are always original and independent, and willing to go beyond the conventional wisdom of the crowd.”