Saul Eslake has been Chief Economist of the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) since August 1995. He is a member of ANZ's Group Asset and Liability Committee, which oversees the management of the Bank's balance sheet, and of the Chief Executive's Group; and is also Chairman of ANZCover, the Bank's internal fraud, crime and professional indemnity insurer.

Saul began his career as an economist in the Commonwealth Public Service, including two years at the Treasury in Canberra. Prior to joining ANZ, he was Chief Economist (International) at National Mutual Funds Management (now part of the AXA Insurance group) and, before that, Chief Economist of the stockbroking firm McIntosh Securities (now part of the Merrill Lynch group) from 1986 to 1991.

Saul has a first class honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania, and in 2003 he completed the Senior Executive Program at Columbia Universitya"s Graduate School of Business in New York.

Saul is currently a member of three Federal Government advisory panels - the Tourism Forecasting Committee, the Trade Policy Advisory Council, and the Foreign Affairs Council - and of the Premier of Victoria's Business Advisory Network. As an expatriate Tasmanian Saul also maintains links with his home State, as a Board Member of the University of Tasmania Foundation, Chairman of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board and Chair of the Launceston 2020 Steering Committee which developed a community-based vision for the City of Launceston (in northern Tasmania) for the year 2020.