Judith Yates

Judith Nancy Yates AM (20 November 1943 – 20 May 2022) was an Australian housing economist. She was a lecturer and associate professor at the University of Sydney from 1971 to 2009. As a social liberal economist, she published over 120 papers in academic journals and government and industry reports on most aspects of Australia's housing sector, most notably on distributional aspects of the tax and finance system, on affordability and the supply of low-rent housing.Throughout her career she was appointed to a number of government advisory committees, and she contributed to many government inquiries.

She was the first woman on the boards of the Commonwealth Bank and the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation. From 2001 to 2017 she worked extensively with the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).