Don is one of Australia's best-known economists. He has had a long and distinguished career in each of academia, central banking and investment banking. From 1981 to 2001, Don was Chief Economist/Director of Investment Strategy for Deutsche Bank and its predecessor Bain & Company. Currently he is Chairman of Praemium Limited and non-executive director of ING Private Equity Access Limited. From 1987 to 2006, he contributed a fortnightly column to BRW. He also made a weekly broadcast on the Australian economy and share market for the BBC World Service and he contributed a regular column to the Japanese financial newspaper the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.