David de Garis is the director and senior economist of National Australia Bank, which he joined since 2005. His bread and butter work is as a business, treasury or financial markets economist, speaking with clients ranging from the Bank’s agribusiness and corporate clients as well as to institutional clients at home and abroad. Mr de Garis writes for the bank’s daily and weekly economics and market reports, and speaks with the media often on a day-to-day basis about the economy and financial markets.
He did his economics apprenticeship with federal governments of various persuasions in Canberra before he left in the late 1980s. He finished his indenture in Canberra as a senior economic adviser in the then Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s Department in Canberra and before that, in the Federal Treasury and the Bureau of Statistics.
