Oliver is the Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative. Before joining the Initiative, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, the Chief Economist at the Policy Exchange in London, and an advisor in the UK House of Lords.
Oliver holds a master's degree in economics and business administration and a PhD in Law from Bochum University in Germany.
Oliver is available to comment on all of the Initiative’s research areas.
Phone: +64 4 499 0790
Saying something genuinely new on the euro crisis is getting more difficult as time passes. The problems never change, only the sums involved. Read more
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” That’s not a new research finding but a quote by Aristotle (384-322 BC). It opened an event on Dunedin’s Economic Development Strategy on Tuesday, which I attended as a guest speaker. Read more
Newspapers are reporting increasing pressure from Germany for Spain to accept a European bailout. The story is all the more credible as the Spanish government, refusing a bailout, has strongly denied any such bullying. Read more
Analysing the link between the Holocaust and the European crisis is far more interesting than solving the crisis. At least if you are German. Read more
Dr Oliver Hartwich hosts our first Initiative@home on Wednesday 16 May. Initiative@home are invitation-only after-fives events held roughly every six weeks for our members and a small group of senior colleagues in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Read more
As a newcomer to New Zealand, one of the biggest surprises to me was the degree of polarisation I perceived in its political discourse. In the complex world of 21st century globalisation the way in which debates are still conducted as "Left versus Right" is not only anachronistic. Read more