Speeches

Ganesh Nana, Chair of the Productivity Commission, presented at a BDO breakfast to Directors and Senior Executives on productivity to support businesses to compete, grow and prosper in 2021.

Ganesh Nana, Chair of the Productivity Commission, presented to IPANZ members on the opportunities for improved public sector productivity, along with the challenges to measuring and evaluating productivity. 

Ganesh Nana, Chair of the Productivity Commission, believes economics is fundamentally about people (not money). What to make of economics and wellbeing? And what lessons does the COVID experience provide? Ganesh presented his thoughts to U3A in Wellington. 

The University of Waikato's New Zealand Economics Forum focused on enhancing the quality of public conversation about economic policy in New Zealand. It explored the major challenges facing our national economy for policymakers and officials, as well as the long-term economic impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Ganesh Nana, Chair of the Productivity Commission, presented his thoughts on the Challenges to & opportunities for improving productivity in a post-COVID world.

Recording - presentation by Ganesh Nana

Governments around the world are grappling with the question of how tightly to manage the spread of Covid-19 while sustaining economies and preserving public licence for ongoing or renewed containment measures. Principal Advisor Dave Heatley presented to LEANZ on what we know about policy trade-offs that could inform the Government's pandemic approach. Dr Martin Lally who wrote The costs and benefits of a Covid-19 lockdown also commented.

Guanyu Zheng and Judy Kavanagh presented on the research paper New jobs, old jobs: The evolution of work in New Zealand’s cities and towns at the 11th Annual Conference of the Association of Academic Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools. This paper uses census data to document and analyse the changing nature of jobs in regional New Zealand between 1976 and 2013.

Productivity Commission Chair Murray Sherwin delivered a speech for the Robin Johnson Memorial session at the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference.

Murray Sherwin delivered the keynote speech at the 2018 Government Economics Network Conference in Wellington on powerful policy tools for new policy problems.

The Commission's Chair Murray Sherwin delivered a speech to the Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research on the Commission's low-emissions economy inquiry.

Murray Sherwin delivered the opening address at the 2017 Government Economics Network Conference in Wellington on New Zealand's productivity deficit.

The UC Connect public lecture series offers the community an opportunity to attend topical lectures by experts in their fields. Chair of the Productivity Commission Murray Sherwin delivered a speech on What can a five-year old Productivity Commission add to a thousand-year old institution?

Murray Sherwin delivered a New Zealand perspective speech to the Australia and New Zealand School of Government Conference in Canberra.

Chair of the Productivity Commission Murray Sherwin delivered the following speech From silos to systems: Some observations from across the ditch.

The CommonWealth Economic Forum gathered Asia's academic and business elites to discuss the region's future and explore the ideas of economic well-being and sustainability. Productivity Commission Chair Murray Sherwin delivered the following speech on small economies such as New Zealand and Taiwan.