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Economist Gareth Aird’s first love was music, but few people know that the Commonwealth Bank’s eyes and ears on the Australian economy is also an accomplished, if somewhat rusty, pianist.
“I took it very seriously when I was younger,” he says. “I started off doing classical and did all eight grades until I was 15.” He even won a Big Brother scholarship that sent him for six weeks to a music school in London. Gareth Aird was a senior policy adviser in debt issuance at a time when the UK government was raising substantial amounts of bonds.Music turned into a lucrative side-hustle while studying agricultural economics at Sydney University; he taught piano to as many as 20 students and performed in bands, playing jazz and pop styles.
But his days of performing in front of audiences are now behind him. “They are an old part of me,” he says, though he admits to still owning a piano – the real deal – and he hopes his two young daughters will soon learn the instrument. Until that happens, he’s enjoying listening to Motown and being inHis first stint in the financial world was on the desk in corporate banking at Commonwealth Bank. But after one year, he realised it was not what he wanted and left.
He soon joined NSW Treasury’s macroeconomics graduate programme. “And then, the rest is history; I’ve worked as an economist ever since.”
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