Mr Romeo Salla holds Honours and Masters degrees in Commerce (Economics Major) from the University of Melbourne, Victoria. In the early 1990's, he worked as an economist with both the Commonwealth Department of Treasury in Canberra, as well as the Industry Commission (now Productivity Commission) in Melbourne.

From 1995, he completed his Diploma of Education at Monash University and then commenced teaching VCE Economics. He taught at Scotch College, Hawthorn, in 1996, before moving to St Michael's Grammar, St Kilda, where he was Head of Department. Between 2000 - 2005 he taught at Mazenod College, Mulgrave, where he was Head of Commerce and between 2006-2008 he was employed by Mater Christi College, Belgrave, as VCE Coordinator and senior Economics and Accounting teacher.  He is currently a teacher of VCE and IB economics at Geelong Grammar School.

Since his move to the education sector, Mr Salla has been prominent in advancing the interests of the economics discipline in the Victorian Curriculum and he has continued to undertake professional development to ensure that he can provide the best possible quality of education to the students he both teaches.

Mr Salla has assessed end of year examination papers since 1996 and presents Student Lectures on an annual basis at the University of Melbourne and RMIT on behalf of the CPAP (click on the Student Lectures button for details about the CPAP Course Revision and Examination Preparation Lectures in October 2011). A full day workshop is also being conducted during the first week of the September school holidays.  Click on the following link for details:  Workshop  

Mr Salla provides professional development seminars to teachers on a regular basis on behalf of the VCTA and is the current Editor of the Economics section of ComNet, the official VCTA website, used by students and teachers across Australia. 

Mr Salla is also the author of the 'The CPAP Study Guide to VCE Economics' and co-author of the popular VCE text 'Economic Fundamentals in Australia' and Monumental Humanties 3 (Cambridge).