Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie was educated in Western Australia and the US, and has a varied academic background including a PhD in political geography, researching the socio-economic impacts of the restructuring of the agricultural industry. She has extensive experience in population and socio-economic change, housing, regional economic development and analysis of remote, regional and urban socio-economic indicators. She has published widely and undertaken work for the corporate and small business sectors, both nationally and in Western Australia, as well conducting work for all three tiers of government. Prof Haslam McKenzie served on several government and private sector boards. She was the WA Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and subsequently led the CSIRO Minerals Down Under Regions in Transition Project. In 2012, she was appointed Principal Research Leader of the Regional Economies – Enduring Community Value from Mining program for the Remote Economic Participation Co-operative Research Centre until 2015, when she was appointed co-director of the Centre for Regional Development at the University of WA.
