[2] Eslake completed a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (now known as FINSIA).
[5] He has been the Australian representative on the International Conference of Commercial Bank Economists (ICCBE) since 2003, and chaired its Steering Committee between 2018 and 2021.
He has also undertaken and published research on specific industries or themes including housing, tourism, agriculture, energy, infrastructure investment, metals and minerals, poverty alleviation, income distribution and inequality, taxation reform, shipping and transport, the future of work, and regional development.
[5] Eslake has written reports commissioned by private and public organisations as well as government institutions on topics such as sovereign risk, housing affordability and home ownership, taxation reform, shipping costs, international student education, the Tasmanian economy, productivity, the labour market, and various aspects of macro-economic policy.
He participates in panel discussions; presents to boards, investment and asset allocation committees; undertakes customized analyses and reports for corporate, investor, not-for-profit and government clients; has given testimony to Parliamentary Committees; and appears frequently on radio and TV and in the print media in Australia and other countries,[5] including appearance on Conversations with Richard Fidler on ABC.
[17][18][19][20][21] ‘The best way to push bad policy is to wrap it up in a ‘security’ blanket’, originally published in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 2011[22] was featured in The Best Australian Business Writing 2012.