UC Alumni Wellington Chapter Event - November 2024

Join fellow UC alumni at our upcoming Wellington Chapter event on Thursday 28 November 2024, with guest speaker Graham Scott.

Graham will share his personal reflections on the New Zealand economy and the Public Sector from his time as an economist, beginning at the University of Canterbury sixty years ago.

RVSP by Thursday 21 November 2024. Guests are welcome, but please register them also.

Speaker Bio: Graham Scott

Graham Scott has an MCom from Canterbury University and a PHD in economics from Duke university. He has had a long career in public policy, finance and management in both public and private sectors in New Zealand. He was economic adviser in the Prime Minister’s Dept in the Muldoon Government and Secretary to the Treasury from 1986-1993 under the Lange and Bolger governments. After leaving the public service, he had numerous state sector roles included chairing the Central Regional Health Authority and the national Health Funding Authority in the 1990s. He has also chaired numerous government-appointed advisory committees concerning public service policy advice, service delivery and industry regulation. He chaired the task force to review the Government’s Regulatory Responsibility Bill in 2009.   He was a commissioner on the Productivity Commission for its first eight years where his interest in Social Investment arose and continues today. He has had various directorships in the private sector, including the company that created the wholesale electricity market and he has had a long career in the consulting industry.  Internationally, he advised government agencies in fifty countries on fiscal policy, public management and economic development. He was a visiting scholar at the IMF and re-designed the Internal Justice System of the World Bank. He is a distinguished fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists and was awarded the Companion of the Bath in the 1995 Queen’s Birthday honours.