Tim Harcourt spent years traversing the globe in pursuit of
opportunities for industry as the chief economist at Australia's trade
marketing organisation, Austrade. Now "the airport economist" has landed
as the newly appointed JW Neville Fellow in Economics at the Australian
School of Business, bringing a unique perspective on Australia's place
in the global economy. The lucky country has often created its own luck,
and fears of Australia's over-dependence on China are unfounded,
suggests Harcourt. He foresees an export future beyond "rocks and crops"
in far-flung markets across Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.