Dr. Anthony (Tony) G. Webber

Dr. Anthony (Tony) G. Webber is an economist by trade and a quantitative modelling expert. These skills have led Dr Webber to be summonsed as an expert witness across a variety of court cases. is one of the world’s leading aviation economists. He has almost two decades of experience in aviation, starting as Chief Economist with the Qantas Group between 2004 and 2011 and then as the Managing Director of his own aviation consulting business between 2011 to today.

Tony started his career as an academic in 1989 when he was a tutor at the University of Newcastle in both Quantitative Methods and Economics. He has since been an academic at a variety of other Australian institutions including the University of New England, the University of Wollongong, the University of NSW, the University of Sydney, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Technology Sydney. Dr Webber has also been involved with overseas universities including the University of Lund in Sweden, Copenhagen University in Denmark, and Embry Riddle Aviation University in Florida, U.S.A.

Tony has also applied his skills to the public sector when he was a manager and economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and as a consultant, consulting to a wide variety of Government entities such as Transport for NSW, the Greater Cities Commission, Tourism Australia, and the Australian Federal Treasury amongst others.

Tony holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Newcastle and a PhD in economics from the University of New South Wales.