Alexander Hunter was a Scottish-Australian industrial economist. He arrived in Australia in 1958 after being appointed a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He then gained prominence as the editor of The Economics of Australian Industry. He became a professor of economics at the University of New South Wales in 1961, then moving to the Australian National University in 1965. He was a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. He was married to Thelma Anna Carmela Cibelli and had three children. Hunter died of a coronary occlusion during a visit to Lae, Papua New Guinea, and was cremated.
- Occupation
- economist, academic
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- December 23, 1919
