Insights Series - With Dr Don Brash

03 Mar 2010

After a successful presentation at our Wellington Policymaker series in December 2009, Dr Don Brash returns to speak at our Auckland office.

Topic: 2010 - The year it will become clear whether the Government is serious about catching Australia

Dr Don Brash Bio:

Don is one of New Zealand’s leading economic and financial policy advisers.

With a wide background in public policy, Don chairs the Government’s 2025 Taskforce, charged with investigating the reasons for the recent decline in New Zealand’s productivity performance, identifying superior institutions and policies in Australia and other more successful countries, and making recommendations on the steps needed for New Zealand to achieve Australian living standards by 2025. 

Currently chairman of Huljich Wealth Management and a director of ANZ National Bank, Transpower, Ocean Partners and Oceania Dairy Group, he is also an Adjunct Professor of Banking in the Business School at AUT University in Auckland and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law and Management at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Prior to this, Don was a Member of Parliament, having resigned as Governor of the Reserve Bank on 26 April 2002 in order to enter Parliament, with the stated motivation of reducing the gap in living standards between New Zealand and Australia.  In 2003, he was elected Leader of the Opposition and used this position to move public debate forward on a number of key issues.  He received considerable public support, successfully raising the National Party's share of the party vote from 20.9 % in the 2002 election to 39.1 % in the 2005 general election.

www.donbrash.com