Associate Professor Christian (Andi) Nygaard is a social economist and Research Theme Leader for New Ways of Urban Living in the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology. His primary research interests are in the processes of urban change with focus on long-term neighbourhood dynamics; housing market efficiency and affordability; international migrants in housing, neighbourhoods and labour markets; political-economy and institutional drivers of governance adaptations in the provision of social housing, transition dynamics and industrial policy making in resource rich countries.