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November 20 2025
Len Bayliss
Len Bayliss, then an economist at the Reserve Bank, played an important role in the creation of the New Zealand Association of Economists. Supported strongly by Alan Low, then the…
November 20 2025
Roderick S Deane
Roderick has made a considerable contribution to New Zealand over the past 30 years: as an economist and policymaker; as a corporate leader; and as a citizen supporting the arts…
November 20 2025
Peter Lloyd
When Professor Peter Lloyd was awarded his Distinguished Fellow’s award from the Australian Economic Society, the citation was co-authored by Max Corden (Corden and Jayasuriya (2006)). In trade research terms…
November 20 2025
Peter CB Phillips
Peter C B Phillips is an outstanding economist and econometrician. Peter is in many ways a product of the New Zealand education system at its best. He was dux of…
November 20 2025
Lewis Evans
How did a farm adviser on “technical and financial matters” become one of New Zealand’s finest academic economists; an economist who has published in top international journals and who has…
November 20 2025
John McMillan
(d. 2007) I’m delighted to read this citation, largely written by John Gibson, for John McMillan, the Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of International Management and Economics at Stanford University.…
November 20 2025
John D Gould
John Gould brought a new professionalism to the study and promotion of economic history in New Zealand. The New Zealand university economics curriculum had long had a component of economic…
November 20 2025
Gary Hawke
Gary Hawke’s distinction was apparent as a student in the Economics Department of Victoria University of Wellington in the early 1960s. The judgement of his VUW teachers that he was…
November 20 2025
Donald T Brash
There can only be the barest handful of New Zealand economists who have had a career that is both as distinguished and varied as that of Don Brash. His career…
November 20 2025
Conrad A Blyth
(d. 2012) The Council for the NZ Association of Economists has chosen four outstanding individuals for the inaugural NZAE Distinguished Fellows awards. It is an honour and a great pleasure…
November 20 2025
Bruce Ross
The New Zealand Association of Economists is delighted to honour the many distinguished contributions made by Professor Bruce Jerome Ross, CNZM, over his long career as a research economist, policy…
November 20 2025
Brian Easton
This Distinguished Fellowship award is made to the most popular economist to the New Zealand public over the last thirty years. The only recognisable New Zealand economist to most people…
July 4 2024
Graham Scott
Graham Scott is amongst the most consequential of New Zealand’s economists, having beencontinuously active in public policy in this country and internationally for almost 60 years.His academic career is impressive…
August 25 2022
Dame Suzanne Snively
Suzanne Snively was born in the United States and came to New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship in 1972. Her undergraduate years were spent at a liberal arts college, Reed…
July 26 2022
Alan E. Bollard
Alan E. Bollard CNZM, PhD, LLD(hon), D Com(hon), FRSNZ At the end of the school year in 1968, Mr Murray Nairn, the then Headmaster at Mt Albert Grammar School, wrote…
June 23 2021
John Creedy
John Creedy is Professor in Public Economics and Taxation at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) where his research interests focus on public economics, labour economics, income distribution and the history…
July 29 2019
Stephen Jenkins
Stephen Jenkins is Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is one of the world’s leading scholars in the economics of inequality and poverty.…
July 31 2018
Julia Lane
New Zealand produces many innovative minds. In economics, we often think of innovation in terms of a revolutionary theoretical insight or the creation of a new empirical test. But –…
July 13 2017
John Gibson
New Zealand’s small size and distance from major markets are often cited as contributing to lower productivity domestically than in other developed countries. This year’s New Zealand Association of Economists…
July 1 2016
David Teece
Professor David Teece is Professor of Business Administration and Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is also Director…
