The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has announced the recipients of this year’s Brian Gray Scholarship.  

The program, named after APRA’s former EGM Policy Research and Consulting, supports up to four research students in finance, economics, actuarial science, econometrics, and statistics with $15,000 towards their postgraduate and honours studies. The scholarship is jointly funded by APRA and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

The students selected for this year are University of NSW PHD candidate Robert Annabel, University of Sydney Honours candidates Rhys Creer and Anna-Sophia Zahar, and University of Melbourne Honours candidate Felix Plunkett.  

As part of the program, the recipients are required to devote a “substantial amount of time” to an agreed research program, where they will later present their findings to APRA and RBA representatives.   

APRA says applications for next year’s scholarship will open in December this year.