Heinz Arndt

Heinz Wolfgang Arndt (26 February 1915 - 6 May 2002) was an Australian economist.

Biography

Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in Breslau, Germany in 1915, the eldest son of Fritz Georg Arndt (1885-1969) and Julia (née Heimann). Arndt gained two degrees at Oxford and taught at the London School of Economics and Manchester University before settling in Australia in 1946. In 1950, he took up a chairmanship in economics at the then Canberra University College. He became head of the department at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1963. He held this position until retiring in 1980. One of his main activities as head of the department was his establishment and management of the Indonesia Project which sponsors research on the Indonesian economy. As part of his activities with the Indonesia Project he established the academic journal Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES).

Arndt died in a car crash in Canberra in May 2002. He was on his way to attend the funeral of his close friend Sir Leslie Melville, at which he was to deliver a eulogy.