Member Profiles

The NZAE has approximately 350 members, however, not all members have supplied their profiles.

Members wishing to make amendments to their listing, or to be added to the site can email the NZAE at economists@nzae.org.nz with "Member Profile" in the Subject line.

 

Malcolm Abbott Brian Bell Matt Benge Sean Bevin
Gambhir Bhatta Alan Bollard David Butcher Geoff Butcher
Anthony Casey Iris Claus Robin Clements Ross Cullen
Donal Curtin Paul Dalziel Roderick Deane Gerald Dreaver
Ian Duncan Brian Easton Daniel Evans Colin Fraser
Andrew Fung Vince Galvin John Gibson Arthur Grimes
Alfred V Guender Maraina Hak Viv Hall Carl D Hansen
Suella Hansen Alfred Haug Gary Hawke Robert Heyes
Prue Hyman J Keith Johnson Suzi Kerr Paul Killerby
Stephen Knowles Leo Krippner Andrea Kutinova Wai Kun Callie Lau
Jason Leung-Wai Chris Livesey Philip S Morrison John Nash
David Norman Des O'Dea John Ong Les Oxley 
Chris Pinfield Vicki Plater Jacques Poot David A Preston
Weshah Razzak Susan St John Caroline Saunders Grant M Scobie
W Guy Scott Frank Scrimgeour Maroš Servátka Murray Sherwin
Min B Shrestha Adrian Slack Frank Stewart Kerrin M Vautier
Bryce Wilkinson Gordon Witte


Malcolm Abbott
Consultant
KPMG
    Email: mjabbott@kpmg.com.au

Consultant economist for KPMG mainly in the field of government advisory services but also in the field of telecommunications and electricity regulation. As well I am a Research Associate of the Centre for Research in International Education in Auckland, a Research Colleague of the PROPHE centre at the State University of New York in Albany and an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Chongqing Jiaotong University in China.


Brian Bell
Director, Nimmo-Bell
MAgrSc (Hons), CFIP, MInstD 
    Nimmo-Bell & Company Ltd
P O Box 10790
Wellington

Brian's current economic work is focused on developing a decision support system for biosecurity incursions impacting on indigenous biodiversity.  The core discipline is non-market valuation using choice modelling. Brian has an ongoing interest in developing and applying methodology for natural resource management and R&D evaluation using cost benefit analysis (CBA) and risk analysis. Nimmo-Bell has trade marked a framework called QuRA(tm), which utilises a risk simulation tool for project appraisal and financial feasibility.  Brian is also a specialist in the design, implementation and management of international trust funds for development. This involves aspects of public and private sector governance and micro and macro economic management. The funds span across supplementation of national budgets to funds for economic and social development in small isolated communities (such as outer islands in coral atoll societies) and conservation and education funds for endangered natural forests. For further information visit http://www.nimmo-bell.co.nz/


Matt Benge
Assistant Deputy Commissioner
Policy Advice Division, Inland Revenue
    Email: matt.benge@ird.govt.nz

 


Sean Bevin
Economic Analyst
BA (Hons) Econ
    Economic Solutions Ltd.
150A Guppy Road
P O Box 7523
Taradale
Phone: +64 6 844 1021
Fax: +64 6 844 1031
Mobile: 027 220 4937
Email: esl@maxanet.co.nz

Specialising In:
Gambhir Bhatta
PhD

    South Asia Department
Governance, Finance, and Trade Division
Asian Development Bank
Manila, Philippines
Email: gbhatta@adb.org
Phone: +63 2 632 5472

Gambhir Bhatta is currently Senior Governance Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. Prior to that he was associated with the School of Government (at Victoria University of Wellington) on leave from the State Services Commission where he was a Senior Advisor (Public Management). He has previously been associated with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), National University of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Management, and International Management Development Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, among others. He has also been involved in consultancies and professional assignments for the UN, Asian Development Bank, and others in the USA, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Singapore, New Zealand, Rwanda, Timor-Leste, Bhutan, Laos, and Nepal. Gambhir's research work has appeared in such journals as Public Personnel Management (USA), The Innovation Journal (Canada), International Review of Administrative Sciences (Belgium), Public Performance and Management Review (USA), International Journal of Training and Development (UK), and Policy Studies Journal (USA). His latest publication, The International Dictionary of Public Management and Governance, is to be published in 2005 by M. E. Sharpe (New York). Gambhir has a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh (1990) with specialisations in Applied Policy Analysis, and Urban and Regional Development. He has a Dual Masters in Economics and Political Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.


Alan Bollard
Governor, RBNZ
MA (Hons) PhD
    Reserve Bank of New Zealand
P O Box 2498
Wellington

Alan Bollard's position involves running the Reserve Bank (Functions: financial systems oversight, bank surveillance, cash, monetary policy) and making OCR decisions. Research interests: determinants of New Zealand productivity and growth.


David Butcher
    P O Box 5279
Wellington
Phone/Fax: +64 4 476 9001
Mobile: +64 21 438 630
E-mail: HonDavidButcher@compuserve.com
Web Site: www.dba.org.nz

David Butcher specialises in the corporatisation and commercialisation of government entities and their relationships to the private sector. This focuses on institutional reform and appropriate forms of regulation. He has been an institutional expert for the World Bank, UNDP, EBRD, ADB and other organisations. In 1991 he worked in the Iran Electricity industry with the World Bank. In 1993 he worked in Kazakhstan and India. In 1994, he was hired to help the Mongolian Privatisation Commission, on the reform of state owned enterprises. This was followed by an ADB project in road sector of the Lao Democratic Republic in 1994. He has since been involved in infrastructure reform in Mongolia, the reorganisation of that country's coal sector, preliminary work on the setting up of an electricity market in Guangdong, China and a similar corporatisation and market building assignment in Yunnan in association with PA Consultants, Auckland. He has twice worked on Civil Service Reform in Bangladesh, most recently in 2001. In 2000, he has also been the proejct manager for a review of the regulation of network industries in Vietnam. In 2001 he has been working in China and Vietnam and most recently is leading a World Bank Review of the Telecommunications Regulatory Regime in Cambodia and an Asian Development Bank electricity transmission rehabilitation project in Central Asia.


Geoff Butcher
Butcher Partners Ltd
     

Geoff Butcher's current work includes:
Anthony Casey
Economist
BEc (Hons)
    The Treasury
1 The Terrace
P O Box 3724
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 917 6919
Fax: +64 4 473 3447
Mobile: 021 522 408
Email: Anthony.Casey@treasury.govt.nz
Website: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/

Current work concerns transport and competition policies. Research interests include transport economics, public choice, economic evaluation methods, modelling and methodology, the history of economic thought and the role of economists in policy formulation.


Iris Claus
Economist
Hon BA, MA, PhD
    Policy Advice Division, Inland Revenue
P O Box 2198
Wellington, New Zealand
Email: iris.claus@ird.govt.nz
 
Iris Claus is a Senior Research Economist in the Policy Advice Division at Inland Revenue and a Research Associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA). Her current research interest are in the economic effects of taxation, financial intermediation, open economy macroeconomics and general equilibrium modelling. Iris previously held positions at the New Zealand Treasury, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of Canada.


Robin Clements
Director of Research
BSc (Hons)
    UBS Warburg New Zealand Ltd

Robin Clements's primary responsibilities include the preparation of NZ market commentaries and macro economic analysis/forecasts as input to investment and strategic asset allocation advice for domestic and international clients. Provides research support to the NZD global fixed interest and foreign exchange business units.

Robin was an economist with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand from 1982 to 1990.

 
Ross Cullen
Associate Professor
BCom(Hons) PhD (Otago), DipAgr DipVFM
     

Ross Cullen wrote his PhD on The inter country diffusion of pharmaceutical products, but his research during the past 15 years has focused on topics within the field of resource and environmental economics. Topics investigated include: optimal timing of gold mining; the payoff from oil and gas exploration; management of outdoor recreation; opportunity cost of landscape preservation, fisheries management; national sustainability indicators; non market valuation of improved water quality; productivity of endangered species programmes; evaluation of vertebrate pest control projects.

Ross will spend some time during 2000 on Study Leave collecting information in a number of countries on the modes of delivery and the productivity of their endangered species programmes.  


Donal Curtin
Managing Director
BA (Trinity College, Dublin)
MA (National University of Ireland)

    Economics New Zealand Ltd
P O Box 65-606
Mairangi Bay
Auckland 1330

Personal research interests and commercial consultancy work include macroeconomic forecasting, investment portfolio design, tactical asset allocated investment analysis, and exchange rate forecasting and risk management. Donal also has a keen interest in the economics of network industries, and is an Associate Member of the Commerce Commission.


Paul Dalziel
PhD (Otago), MCom
    Commerce Division
Lincoln University
Canterbury

Sigma Research Interests: Monetary Economics; Post-Keynesian Economics; New Zealand Macroeconomic Policy Sigma Current Research: Credit-Money and Price Stability; New Zealand Economic Reforms.

Roderick Deane
PhD, BCom (Hons), FACA, FCIS, FNZIM, Honorary LLD
    Email: Roderick.Deane@independenteconomics.com
Website: http://www.independenteconomics.com/  

Roderick Deane has had an extensive career in business as Chairman and as a Director of a number of major New Zealand and Australian companies and earlier in the public sector and central banking.  He has also had a considerable involvement with charitable and cultural organizations. He is currently Chairman of Fletcher Building Limited and the New Zealand Seed Fund. Dr Deane is a Director of the Australian company Woolworths Limited and on the Advisory Board of Pacific Road Corporate Finance Ltd in Sydney.

He is also Patron and a past President of IHC Inc. and Chairman of the IHC Foundation. IHC is New Zealand's largest voluntary welfare charitable organization.

Until 30 June 2006, when he retired from each of these positions, Dr Deane was Chairman of Telecom Corporation of NZ Limited, ANZ National Bank Limited, Te Papa Tongarewa (the Museum of New Zealand), and the City Gallery Wellington Foundation. He was also a Director of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.

In the past Dr Deane has been involved in the executive branch of Government, as Chairman of the State Services Commission, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. He was also Chief Executive of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Limited and, until October 1999, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Telecom NZ Limited.

He had previously been a Director of TransAlta Corporation Limited in Canada, Chairman of both TransPower Ltd and DesignPowerBuild Ltd, a Director of AMP Society in NZ, Chairman of the Mayoral Business Advisory Group in Wellington, and a member of the Prime Minister's Enterprise Council.

Dr Deane is a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre of Independent Studies in Australia and of the NZ Association of Economists. He was the inaugural NZIER Economist of the Year in 1994 and was Executive of the Year in 1994 and Executive of the Decade in 1999 in the NZ Management Top 200 awards.


Gerald Dreaver
Hon BA
   
Policy Advice Division, Inland Revenue
P O Box 2198
Wellington, New Zealand

Gerald Dreaver is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Policy Advice Division at Inland Revenue, and has worked on secondment with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on climate change policy. He has particular interests in public and environmental economics. In a previous career Gerald was a researcher at the Ministry of Education.


Ian Duncan
Senior Research Economist
NZIER
BSc
     

Ian Duncan joined the NZIER in 1990. He undertakes commissioned research on behalf of clients in the private and public sectors in New Zealand. The research involves the application of economic data and concepts to policy or strategy questions. He also spends a certain amount of time marketing NZIER's services and responding to requests for tender. Projects undertaken in the latter part of 2000, and early 2001 included: economic evaluation of a local body development initiative; comparative analysis of rating burdens; economic input into a response to a dumping allegation; a paper on international value chains; and drafting of sector profiles for NZIER's Industry Outlook.



Brian Easton
Economist, Social Statistician,
Public Policy Analyst
BSc (Hons), BA, FRSS, Dip Stat
    18 Talavera Terrace
Kelburn, Wellington
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/

Economic research—current major projects are on macro economy, globalisation, income distribution, economic history, public policy. Also consultant, teacher, writer.


Daniel Evans
Economic Analyst 
BCom (Accounting & Finance)
    Phone: (028) 890 636
Fax: (028) 890 637
Email: daniel@danielmevans.net 

Areas of Interest: Working with barter-trade in developing countries (Mexico, Poland, Thailand, Turkey, India) and counter-trade/reciprocal/corporate trade in developed nations (Norway, USA, Canada etc); Micro-credit, lending and credit-money

Areas of Work: Development of long-range forecasting models; Sustainable development; Economic impact analysis; Industry profiling - barter, counter-trade, offset trade, reciprocal trade; Interested in credit-money and barter-exchange trade; Applied micro-economics; Non-market valuation techniques


Colin Fraser
  42 Queens Drive
Lyall Bay
Wellington



Andrew Fung
International Audit, Inland Revenue
    Email: andrew.fung@ird.govt.nz

 



Vince Galvin
Manager, Inflation Measures
BSc (Hons), Dip Soc Sci
    Statistics New Zealand
P O Box 2922
Wellington

The management of the division within Statistics NZ which prepares the CPI, the Labour Cost Index, and the development of other appropriate measures. Vince is also concerned with developing an overall framework for measuring price change throughout the economy.


John Gibson
Senior Lecturer
BAgSci, Canterbury
MAgSci, Lincoln
PhD, Stanford
     

John Gibson's interests include quantitative economic development; microeconometric aspects of development; poverty analysis; economics of education and panel econometrics.


Arthur Grimes
    GT Research & Consulting
25 Upper Watt Street
Wadestown, Wellington
Email: grimes.tarrant@xtra.co.nz

 



Alfred V Guender
Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons) (Texas), MS (Illinois),
PhD (North Carolina)
     

Alfred Guender has been working on the stabilising properties of various monetary policy rules in a small open economy framework. Discretionary monetary policy has been considered as well. At the time of writing he was studying the determinants of optimal monetary policy in a forward-looking framework. Part of this research also focuses on the usefulness of a monetary conditions index (MCI) in guiding policy. Doubts about the usefulness of a MCI appear to be justified.

With the help of a student he is currently attempting to design an alternative MCI.


Maraina Hak
Policy Advice Division, Inland Revenue
    Email: maraina.hak@ird.govt.nz 





Viv Hall
Macarthy Chair of Economics
MCom Phd Auck
    School of Economics and Finance
Victoria University of Wellington
P O Box 600
Wellington

Viv Hall's research and teaching interests span macroeconomic theory, modelling and policy, with particular focus on monetary policy, fiscal policy and inflation. His current research involves: New Zealand's current account deficit; Implications for New Zealand's monetary policy of an Australasian Monetary Union; Regional business cycles in New Zealand; and Pacific Rim business cycles.


Carl D Hansen
Chief Economist
M-co New Zealand
     

Carl Hansen is chief economist for M-co New Zealand. He works with a team of economists and lawyers to provide policy advice to working groups serving the NZ Electricity Market (NZEM) and the Metering and Reconciliation Information Agreement (MARIA). Carl is currently Chair of the Security Constraints Working Group in NZEM. He also provides strategic business analysis for M-co's businesses development unit. In his consulting roles, Carl works primarily on organisational, contractual and regulatory issues in network industries. In particular he has expertise in the economics of power systems, the design of multilateral arrangements, pricing and tax theory, and cost-allocation for network assets.


Suella Hansen
PhD (Cambridge), MCom (Auckland)
Director, Network Strategies Limited
    P O Box 37138
Parnell, Auckland
Phone: +64 9 522 1702
Fax: +64 9 522 1703
Email: s.hansen@strategies.nzl.com

Suella is a telecommunications economist, with extensive experience in examining the regulatory and economic aspects of the telecoms industry and devising policy and strategy in developed and developing countries (including China, Malaysia, Samoa, Sri Lanka and Vanuatu). Suella has designed regulatory structures for competitive telecommunications markets as part of international agency-funded projects. She was recently appointed as the expert telecommunications economist on the World-Bank funded team reforming the communications regulatory structure in Samoa. Prior to founding Network Strategies in 1997, Dr Hansen was Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Network Economics and Communications at the University of Auckland. She was a Principal Consultant at the UK telecommunications consultancy Analysys Ltd from 1989 to 1996. Before moving into telecommunications, Dr Hansen commenced her career as a Business Analyst at an international investment bank in London.


Alfred Haug
Diplom-Volkswirt (Konstanz)
MA, PhD (Ohio State)
    Department of Economics
University of Otago
P O Box 56
Dunedin
Email: ahaug@business.otago.ac.nz

Research interests:  
Gary Hawke
Professor of Economic History
BA (Hons) Bcom VUW; DPhil Oxf FRSNZ
    School of Economics & Finance
Victoria University of Wellington
P O Box 600
Wellington

Gary Hawke's research interests are New Zealand economic history; and the role of economics in historical and policy analysis. These are currently expressed in work on:

But the broader issue is how economic thinking has shaped and been shaped by experience in New Zealand, this theme reflecting both Gary's disciplinary origins in Economic History and his experience as Director of the Institute of Policy Studies from 1987-97. His work is best seen in publications such as:



Robert Heyes 
BA Economics, University of the West of England 
 
MSc Economics, University of Warwick
    Department of Labour
Level 3, Unisys House
P O Box 3705
Wellington
Email: robert.heyes@dol.govt.nz 

Robert is the manager of the Labour Market Skills Team at the Department of Labour.


Prue Hyman
Feminist Economist
MA (Oxin), FRSS
    66 Ames Street
Paekakariki

Prue Hyman has recently retired from position of Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. Retains links with VUW, teaching undergraduates and supervising graduate students in feminist economics. Recently completed report on gender barriers in CIB. Currently consultant to Ministry of Women's Affairs on pay equity, mentoring and training policy analysts. Continues to monitor gender impact of economic policy and working on second book on feminist economics.


J Keith Johnson
Senior Economist, NZIER
BA/MA, University of Cambridge, UK
PhD, Australian National University, Canberra
Diploma in Public Sector Management, Massey, NZ
Diploma in Housing Management & Policy, Swinburne, Australia
     

Details at: http://www.nzier.org.nz /


Suzi Kerr
Researcher
    Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research Trust
Island Bay, Wellington

Suzi Kerr's research work empirically and theoretically investigates domestic and international emissions trading issues with special emphasis on tropical carbon sequestration, domestic and international emissions trading issues permit market design, the New Zealand Fisheries individual transferable quota system, and transaction costs and technology change during the United States Lead Phse-down. For further information and the projects Suzi is involved with can be viewed on our website at http://www.motu.org.nz/suzi.htm


Paul Killerby
Local Government Policy Analyst
MMS (Waikato), GDipApplStats (Massey)
     

Paul is the Strategic Planning Manager at APR Consultants Ltd based in Rotorua. His academic and work interests focus on regional development and strategic partnerships. For more information, please visit Paul's website at: http://www.paulkillerby.orcon.net.nz/ 

 
Stephen Knowles
Senior Lecturer
BCom, PhD (Otago)
     

Stephen's research interests are currently in the area of empirical modelling of economic growth, including the effects of social capital and social divergence on economic performance (with Quentin Grafton and Dorian Owen), the effects of government intervention on economic growth (with Arlene Garces) and the effects of income inequality on economic growth.


Leo Krippner
Head of Investment Strategy, AMP Capital Investors
    Email: leo.krippner@ampcapital.com

 


Andrea Kutinova
Lecturer, University of Canterbury
BA (Charles University, Prague)
MA, PhD (University of New Hampshire)
     

Andrea Kutinova's professional interests include Health Economics, Public Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. For more information, please visit Andrea's website at: http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/people/kutinova.shtml


Wai Kun Callie Lau
Lecturer
B. Comm & Mgmt, Hons (Lincoln)
M. Economics (Malaya)
     

Wai Kun Callie Lau's current economic work including studying:
Jason Leung-Wai
Senior Economist
MBS Massey
    Business and Economic Research Ltd (BERL)
Level 5, 108 The Terrace
P O Box 10277 
Wellington
Email:  jason.leung-wai@berl.co.nz

Jason is a senior economist at BERL.  His area of interest is public policy with a particular focus on regional development theory and measurement.  He has undertaken projects ranging from economic impact assessment to regional development strategies.

 
Chris Livesey
Senior Operator, Ministry for the Environment
BSc, BA (Hons)
    14 Fairview Crescent
Kelburn
Wellington 6012
c.livesey@paradise.net.nz

Chris Livesey's current economic work includes:

Chris has an on-going and active interest in:


Philip S Morrison
PhD (Toronto), MA and BAHons (VUW)
    School of Geography,
Environment and Earth Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington

Professor Philip Morrison is an economic geographer whose current interests include local labour and local housing markets and the interaction between the two. Of particular interest at present are the determinants of social wellbeing, particularly the role of that place of residence might play. Of specific concern are the possible trade offs between the labour productivity benefits of growing settlement density versus the negative effects of density on subjective wellbeing.

 
John Nash
Chief Advisor (International Audit)
Inland Revenue
    Email: john.nash@ird.govt.nz 

John is a chartered accountant and holds the position of Chief Advisor (International Audit). In this role he also serves as Competent Authority for New Zealand, responsible for the resolution of double taxation disputes, the negotiation of bilateral advance pricing agreements and exchanges of information with treaty partners. John has specialised in the investigation of transfer pricing and complex tax avoidance arrangements. He has worked for Revenue Authorities in Canada and Ireland, and has represented New Zealand at numerous international meetings. John is currently New Zealand's delegate to the OECD Working Party on Tax Avoidance and Evasion and was elected to Vice Chair in 2006.


David Norman
B.Sc and B.A.
Research Economist
    BERL - Business and Economic Research Limited 
Level 5, 108 The Terrace
P O Box 10-277
Wellington 6143

David works on a range of projects at BERL.  These include economic profiles at regional or district level for clients across the North and South Islands.  He has also worked on several economic impact assessments of infrastructure, and is currently involved in a number of economic impact of immigration-related projects.


Des O'Dea
Consultant Economist
Part-time Lecturer in Health Economics
Wellington School of Medicine
BSc Hons (Canty; Maths); BA (VUW; Economics)
    P O Box 1710
Paraparaumu Beach

Des O'Dea specialises in `social economics', in particular income distribution analyses and health economics. Projects and publications have included reports on income distribution in New Zealand, the hospital industry, the measurement of health sector efficiency and equity; links from income inequality to health, the costs of skin cancer, pharmo-economic analyses, and demand for tobacco products.


John Ong
Policy Advice Division, Inland Revenue
    Email: john.ong@ird.govt.nz 

 


LES Oxley
Professor
BA (Hons.) Wales
MA (Money and Finance) Sheffield
PhD Tilburg
     

LES Oxley's interests include quantitative economic history; economic growth; human capital; applied econometrics; economics of innovation, and energy economics. His www page is: http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/les/index.shtml).


Chris Pinfield
Advisor, Regulatory and Tax Policy
The Treasury
BA(Vic), MA (Cambridge)
    28 Napier Street
Wellington

Chris Pinfield's recent work has included the economic costs of taxation, the regulation of telecommunications, the devaluation of fisheries management, and guidelines for cost recovery across the public sector. 


Vicki Plater
Economic Advisor
MCA (Hons) (Vic) BCA (Vic)
    Email: v-plater@dfid.gov.uk

Vicki Plater is currently working in Zimbabwe for the UK's Department of International Development. Her work includes analysing the country's macroeconomic environment, liaising with the IMF, World Bank, and other bilateral donors, managing trade-and debt-capacity-building projects and providing economic input into a wide variety of other projects including health and rural livelihoods.


Jacques Poot
Population Studies Centre
University of Waikato
Drs Amst, PhD VUW
     

Professor Jacques Poot's current research interests include: Globalisation; The “New Economic Geography” and implications for New Zealand; International migration; Regional development; Monopsony in local labour markets; The wage curve; Meta-analysis; Empirical evidence for endogenous growth; Innovation and efficiency in the New Zealand construction sector; Transportation policy and road pricing; Housing markets; Forecasting.


David A Preston
    23 Ngaio Road
Kelburn
Wellington

David Preston is a consultant on economic and social policy. He specialises in areas involving government administration and public policy. He is an expert on social security systems, and is an active consultant to ILO in providing technical assistance in the design of social security and public pension systems.


Weshah Razzak
     

PhD Economics (minor in statistics), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA (1994) MA Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (1987) Senior Economist, Labour Market Policy Group, Wellington Research interest: International Macroeconomics and Econometrics Website http://www.razzakw.net/


Susan St John
Senior Lecturer
Economics Department
University of Auckland
     

Susan St John's research and teaching interests are focused on public policy issues, macroeconomics and the economics of the public sector. Areas include taxation, pensions, accident compensation, family law and economics and income support. In 1997 she was deputy chair of the Periodic Report Group on retirement incomes. In 2000, the text “Macroeconomics and the contemporary New Zealand economy” with Robert Scollay, first published in 1996, and “Economics Concepts and Applications” co-authored with James Stewart, were substantially updated. Current projects include an analysis of family incomes in New Zealand, the welfare state and targeting, the role of pensions and annuities in New Zealand, international pension systems, the economic implications of New Zealand's Accident Compensation, and tax reforms. She is a member of and contributor to the New Zealand Child Poverty Action Group (Inc.). Recent articles can found at http://www.geocities.com/nzwomen/SusanStJohn.


Caroline Saunders
Associate Professor
BSc(Hons) UCNW
PhD (Newcastle, UK)
     

Caroline Saunders is involved in a series of projects which mainly revolve around trade policy analysis and the impact of environmental policy on trade. In particular Caroline has developed at Lincoln the LTEM a model which stimulates the impact on trade and environmental quality, for New Zealand and her main competitors, the impact of policy changes. Currently the work includes refining the modelling of international trade policies and expanding the environmental variables in the model to include greenhouse gases. Caroline's other work involves evaluating changes in the EU Common Agricultural Policy, and in particular the agri-environmental policy, and its potential impact on New Zealand both direct and indirect. This also involves analysing market changes alongside policy encouraging low-input and/or organic farming.

 
Grant M Scobie
Principal Advisor
BAgSc, MAgEc, PhD
    The Treasury
P O Box 3724
Wellington

Grant Scobie's current research includes:


W Guy Scott
Senior Lecturer
BAgrSc (Canterbury)
MAgrSc (Canterbury)
PhD (Victoria)
    Department of Applied & International Economics
Massey University
Email: g.scott@massey.ac.nz
Economic Consulting: ghscott@xtra.co.nz

W Guy Scott's research and consulting interests include:

Frank Scrimgeour
Associate Professor
BAgSci (Hons) Canterbury;
PhD, Hawaii
     

Frank Scrimgeour's research interests include:


Maroš Servátka
Lecturer, University of  Canterbury
MA (Quantitative Methoeds ) Warsaw School of Economics
MA, PhD (Economics) University of Arizona
     

Maroš Servátka's research interests include behavioral and experimental economics. For more information, please visit his website at: http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/people/servatka.shtml./


Murray Sherwin
Deputy Governor
MSocSci (Hons) Waikato 

 

    Reserve Bank of New Zealand
P O Box 2498
Wellington

Current role:
Min B Shrestha
Senior Economist
PhD, MBA, MPS, MPA
    The South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN)
Research and Training Centre
Lorong Universiti A
59100 Kuala Lumpur
Email: minshrestha@seacen.org
Phone: +603 7958 5600 Ext.247

Min Shrestha is currently working as the Senior Economist at the South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Prior to joining the Centre, he was Director in the Research Department of Nepal Rastra Bank (the central bank of Nepal). He has also served as Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal and was involved in the preparation of Economic Survey of Nepal for the fiscal year 2005/06. He did PhD from the School of Economics and Information Systems, University of Wollongong (Australia). The title of his PhD thesis was "Financial Liberalisation in Nepal". He did Master of Business Administration from Huron University, London Campus (UK) and Master of Political Science and Master of Public Administration from Tribhuvan University (Nepal). His MPA thesis was on "Administrative Corruption in Nepal." His current research interests include macoreconomic policy, banking and financial institutions, financial sector reform, impact study of public policies, migration and economic development, and time series econometrics. He has taught microeconomics, organisational behaviour and strategic management courses and has also published numerous articles and research works on various topics ranging from econometric techniques to non-bank financial intermediation and rural credit.


Adrian Slack 
Economist 
BApplEcon, Massey
BCA (Hons), Victoria
    Business and Economic Research Ltd (BERL)
Level 5, 108 The Terrace
P O Box 10277 
Wellington
Email: adrian.slack@berl.co.nz
Phone: +64 4 931 9214 

Adrian is an economist at BERL and a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University. His area current area of interest is game theoretic modelling and the economics of organisations. Recent projects include measuring philanthropic giving in New Zealand, estimating the fiscal impacts of immigrants and valuing the social harm of illicit drug use in New Zealand. Please visit the BERL website for more information: http://www.berlco.nz/.


Frank Stewart
Regional Policy Analyst
Environment Canterbury
    15 Makora Street
Christchurch 4

Frank Stewart's economic work involves evaluating the costs and benefits of environmental regulation. This includes evaluating rules for allocating and restricting the use of public resources such as surface and ground water and coastal space.


Kerrin M Vautier
CMG 
Research Economist 
   

P O Box 42-033 Orakei
Auckland
Email: kmvautier@xtra.co.nz
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext.87709
Mobile: +64 27 273 2432




Bryce Wilkinson
PhD (Canty)
    Capital Economics Limited
P O Box 10927
Wellington

Bryce Wilkinson provides economic consultancy work particularly in relation to regulatory reform and the regulation of roads, utilities, security markets, health, education and the environment.


Gordon Witte
Policy Advice Division, Inland Revenue
    Email: gordon.witte@ird.govt.nz