BNZ Chief Economist Tony Alexander will address Kea members and take Q&A on the subject of the outlook for the NZ economy, and in particular the impact on the economy of the Christchurch earthquakes.

About Tony Alexander:

Tony Alexander is one of New Zealand's best known economists.He has been employed as Chief Economist at New Zealand’s second largest bank, the Bank of New Zealand, since 1994 with responsibilities including informing the board and senior management about economic developments and prospects, risks and opportunities, and provision of services for the bank’s staff and client base.

In particular Mr Alexander is an accomplished public speaker much in demand and each year delivers between 80 and 130 presentations at bank seminars, conferences, and client functions around the country and offshore. Other functions include maintaining regular contact with print, radio, television and on-line media to discuss developments in the local and global economies and financial markets, along with the production of written publications including newspaper and magazine columns.

Mr Alexander has one of the longest running syndicated weekly newspaper columns in New Zealand and writes and distributes the BNZ Weekly Overview directly to 25,000 email recipients with extensive links from other websites. www.tonyalexander.co.nz

He also conducts the monthly BNZ Confidence Survey which provides not only a near real-time snapshot of business sentiment but insight into how businesses currently perceive their operating conditions. www.tonyalexander.co.nz

Prior to joining the BNZ Mr Alexander worked as principal economist at a stock broking firm in Wellington and before that as Research Officer then Treasury Economist with Westpac Bank initially in Sydney, Australia then New Zealand from 1987. He holds a Master of Arts degree (first class honours) from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the father of five young children, his wife is one of New Zealand’s foremost early childcare researchers, and he lives in the countryside north of New Zealand’s capital city Wellington.

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This event is sponsored by BNZ.