Final Oliver Hartwich

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Executive Director

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 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

Email: oliver.hartwich@nzinitiative.org.nz

Recent Work

A mess of its own making

There was a whiff of Monty Python about the Brexit referendum. In Life of Brian, the People’s Front of Judea asks the famous question: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” As it turns out, very little – apart from providing Judea with sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health and peace. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich
The National Business Review
1 July, 2016

Dr Oliver Hartwich on ABC Radio on Brexit and the pound

Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the possibility of the UK voting to leave the European Union, following news that German government bond yields have turned into negative territory. Investors are now paying the German government to hold their money, fearing that the UK will opt for Brexit. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich
ABC Radio
15 June, 2016

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