How the Asian Financial Crisis shaped Cassandra Winzar's career
For CEDA's chief economist, economics must be about more than growth for the sake of growth.
When Cassandra Winzar isn’t speaking to the media, analysing new economic policies or hosting events, she is spending time with her rescue greyhound.
“I try to give him the life he deserves. The more I find out about the greyhound racing industry and the condition that these dogs are often in when they’ve finished their racing careers … I’m really looking at ways that we can improve the quality of life for greyhounds,” Winzar says.
“Everyone should go out and adopt a greyhound.”
This sense of justice runs deep for Winzar, who is now chief economist for the non-profit think tank Committee for Economic Development Australia. This may be due to a significant amount of her childhood in the 1990s being spent overseas in Indonesia, a result of her father's job in the army.
“There were big economic and financial things going on at the time,” she says. At the top of the list was the Asian Financial Crisis.
