Roger L. Kerr (born 1945) is the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, a free-market think-tank based in Wellington, New Zealand. He is widely regarded as having been one of New Zealand's leading commentators on economic policy over the past 20 years.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Career

Kerr holds an MA (Honours, First Class) from the University of Canterbury and a BCA from Victoria University of Wellington. He was a director of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand from 1986 to 1994, a member of the Council of Victoria University of Wellington from 1995 to 1999, and a member of the Group Board of Colonial Limited in Melbourne from 1996 to 2000.

Kerr has spent much of his career in the economic policy debate in New Zealand, mainly through written commentary. Kerr has been an articulate exponent of Rogernomics and policies aimed to bring New Zealand more into a full market economy, less socialist state.

Kerr is widely published both in New Zealand and abroad, and is often approached to provide his insight on often controversial issues in the media. Before joining the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Kerr was a senior figure in both the New Zealand Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[edit] Awards

• NZIER Qantas Economics Award, 2001
• Tasman Medal, 1994

[edit] External links

• New Zealand Business Roundtable
• Kerr on Public Policy Riddles in 2007
• Kerr on Climate Change in 2007
• Kerr on a Promise of Growth Discarded in 2007

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