AI Economics: Rethinking Metrics & Operating Models

Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the award-winning behaviour change consultancy Inventium. She has worked with companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft to help boost productivity, innovation and wellbeing.

In 2021, Amantha was the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the ‘Oscars for Management Thinking’).

In 2025, Amantha was recognised at the Australian AI Awards, where she won AI Consultant of the Year and the AI Excellence Award - the latter chosen from the highest-scoring individual winners across all categories to recognise the top performer of the year.

Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 6 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world’s most successful people about their habits, strategies, and rituals.

Amantha’s thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company and she is the author of four bestselling books, including international bestseller Time Wise and The Health Habit. Her latest book The Energy Game is out now.

Richard Holden is the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Professor, Chief Societal Economist, and Director of the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics UNSW. He is also President Emeritus of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Prior to that he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He received an AM and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Professor Holden has published in leading general interest journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and Nature.

His research has been featured in press articles in the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, and The New Republic. Professor Holden appears regularly as a media commentator, has published opinion pieces in outlets including the New York Times and The New Republic, and is a weekly columnist for the Australian Financial Review.

Prior to graduate school he worked in private equity for several years, and he continues to advise in the corporate sector.

He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Society of New South Wales.

His most recent books are From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after COVID-19 (Oxford University Press), Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, Digital (University of California Press), and Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race (UNSW Press).

Guillaume Leger is a globally experienced finance executive whose three-decade career has spanned four continents and some of the world’s most complex financial, consumer and public-company environments.

He is Chief Financial Officer at Latitude Financial Services (ASX: LFS), where he leads the company’s financial strategy, planning and reporting, treasury and investor relations. Since joining Latitude in June 2025, he has helped strengthen the company’s funding and capital platform while supporting its strategic growth agenda.

Previously, Guillaume Leger was Global Chief Financial Officer of Omni Bridgeway (ASX: OBL), based in New York, and Group Controller of Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSX: ATD), the Fortune 200 global retailer behind the Circle K brand. Earlier, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup Hong Kong, culminating a 15-year career with Citi that included senior leadership roles across North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. His career began with Deloitte and PwC.

Across industries, markets and economic cycles, Guillaume has built his career around a consistent leadership mandate: bringing clarity to complexity, strengthening financial foundations and positioning organisations for sustainable growth.

André Freilinger is an accomplished Chief Financial Officer and strategic finance executive with more than 30 years of international leadership experience across financial services, technology, manufacturing / wholesale distribution and consumer products. He partners with executive leadership teams to improve business performance, strengthen governance and lead large-scale finance and technology transformation.

Most recently, André served as CFO, Technology and Data, Digital & AI at Westpac Group, leading the finance function supporting one of Australia’s largest technology organisations. During his almost 18-year career with Westpac, he held senior positions including CFO Technology, Head of Finance for Customer Solutions & Technology, Acting Chief of Staff to the Group Chief Operating Officer, Head of Transformation (PMO), and Group Head of Enterprise Project Finance. He worked closely with the Group CIO and executive leadership to shape technology strategy, optimise investment portfolios, improve financial transparency and strengthen financial governance across multi-billion-dollar technology and transformation portfolios.

Before Westpac, André held senior international finance leadership roles with Stora Enso, including Director Finance & HR for Global Corporate IT in Helsinki and Düsseldorf, where he advanced service-based IT costing and cost transparency. He later led the company’s Australian timber distribution business as Managing Director. Earlier roles included CFO of WIV Australia and software development roles with the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency and Die Erste Bank in Austria.

André is a CPA Australia member and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from the University of Vienna.