Laura Cassar
Associate Director
MEc, BEc Resource (Hons 1)
CONTACT
✆ +61 2 9250 0800
✉ lcassar@thecie.com.au
Laura is an experienced economist with 16 years of experience and a particular focus on environmental and natural resource economics.
Since joining the CIE in 2011 Laura has provided economic analysis and advice to clients from federal government, and the Victorian, NSW and Queensland state governments. She has worked on a diverse range of projects relating to environment, water, carbon abatement, mining, planning, transport and infrastructure. Laura has extensive experience in cost benefit analysis, regulatory impact analysis and cost recovery. A key focus of Laura’s recent work has been the development of economic frameworks developed in the context of mining, and more recently carbon abatement and ecosystem services. The frameworks are centred on economic principles and cost benefit analysis frameworks, capturing all private and public impacts of policy options.
Prior to joining the CIE, Laura spent five years in the public sector at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and then subsequently the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. Laura holds a Bachelor of Resource Economics (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Economics from the University of New South Wales.
