Adam Creighton (journalist)

Adam Creighton is an Australian journalist and the Washington correspondent for The Australian.[1]

He was previously the economics editor.[2] He has also written for The Wall Street Journal[3] and The Economist,[2] and has appeared on the ABC panel show Q+A.[4] Creighton has received several awards for his journalism and writing.[5][6][7]

Creighton holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales, and Master of Philosophy in Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, and was a journalist-in-residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2019.[2] He is also a contributor to Sky News Australia[8] and is a member of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia.[9]

Creighton has previously worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia, Centre for Independent Studies and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. In 2010, he served as a senior economic adviser to then-Australian opposition leader, Tony Abbott.[9]

  1. ^ "Adam Creighton heads to US for Washington role". The Australian. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Adam Creighton | Author at The Australian". The Australian. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Adam Creighton". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Zali's Political Slalom". ABC. 5 August 2019. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  5. ^ Fitzgerald, Karl. "EJ Craigie Award Winner – Adam Creighton". Prosper Australia. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Adam Creighton wins Citi Journalism Award for Excellence". The Australian. 30 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence | Previous Journalism Award winners". citigroup.com. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  8. ^ "General Motors ultimately 'doesn't care about Australian jobs'". Sky News Australia. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Mr Adam Creighton". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 20 February 2020.