Economic Weekly: RBNZ Orrless but not rudderless
- The talk of the last week has been RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr’s abrupt resignation last Wednesday, the day before the RBNZ starting holding a conference on 35 years of flexible inflation targeting
- He essentially walked out the door to go on leave until the end of March
- Until the end of March, Deputy Governor Christian Hawkesby is Acting Governor. From April 1st the RBNZ Board will appoint a temporary Governor for up to six months while seeking a permanent replacement
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Mark joined ASB in 2017, with over 20 years of public and private sector experience working as an economist in New Zealand and the UK.
His resume includes lengthy stints at ANZ and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and he has also worked at the Bank of England, HM Treasury and the New Zealand Transport Agency. Mark's areas of specialisation include interest rate strategy, macro-economic analysis and urban economics.
Born and bred in the Waikato, Mark studied at Waikato University where he graduated with a Master of Social Sciences, majoring in Economics.
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