Mike Young (economist)
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Michael Denis Young FASSA is an Australian economist and water policy expert. He is best known for his work informing the management of the water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin.[1][2][3] In 2006, he was listed by The Canberra Times as one of the ten most influential people in water policy reform.[4] In 2009, Young became the inaugural director of the Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide. He holds a Research Chair in Water Economics and Management there and has been a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists since 2002. In 2013–14, Young held the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.[1]