Dr Oliver Hartwich is the Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative, New Zealand’s leading think tank (www.nzinitiative.org.nz). Before joining the Initiative, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, the Chief Economist at Policy Exchange in London, and an advisor in the UK House of Lords. Dr Hartwich holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Law from Bochum University in Germany. Dr Hartwich’s articles have been published by major newspapers in Germany, Britain, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.
Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University
Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)