- WELLINGTON
- +64 4 915 7590
Angus specialises in regulatory, competition and policy analysis. He has expertise in economics and finance, advising public and private sector clients. He also assists in entity and activity performance monitoring as well as network regulation.
Angus has applied his skills across a range of sectors and advised on strategies, business/investment cases, sector plans, policy and regulatory design and development, regulatory impact analysis, budgets/prioritisation and government finances, data and financial analysis, cost benefit analysis and multi criteria analysis, interviews, workshops and various consultations, and various reviews and evaluations (including monitoring frameworks).
He has a deep understanding of government processes, having previously worked at the Treasury, including as a private secretary to the Minister for State-Owned Enterprises, and at the Ministry for the Environment.
Specialisations
Expertise
- Data analytics
- Economic and market analysis
- Financial modelling
- Regulatory and cost benefit analysis
- Strategy and business cases
- Valuations
Industries
- Climate and environment
- Economic development
- Energy and decarbonisation
- Finance and insurance
- Health and wellbeing
- Infrastructure and transport
- Public sector policy and finance
- Property and housing
- Science & innovation
- State, regional and local
Qualifications & accolades
- Master of Philosophy in Economics, University of Cambridge (UK), 2008
- Bachelor of Commerce (Hons First Class, Economics and Finance), University of Otago, 2005
- A member of the Government Economics Network and New Zealand Association of Economists
- Completed Massey University/Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit Governance course.
Recent work highlights include:
- Evaluating the implementation and application of the Earthquake Prone Building regulatory system and developing a rapid cost benefit analyses and regulatory impact analyses/multi criteria analyses for the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment of six separate building sector regulatory proposals (over multiple engagements)
- Examining government spending in risk reduction and response and recovery to natural hazards (see here)
- Reviewing the weather forecasting system in New Zealand, the current contractual, market and institutional dynamics, issues that exist and potential options to address these issues in the context of anticipated future demands on and potential value from the system (see here)
- Reviewing the performance, opportunities, and funding needs of the Electricity Authority (see here) and reviewing a specific funding proposal by the Authority (see here)
- Advising the Climate Change Commission on the approach it takes to analysis across key advice and advising on how to establish its monitoring and evaluation function
- Developing tools to assess and monitor the distributional impacts of emissions reductions policies and advise how these tools could be integrated within existing policy and monitoring processes
- Advising the Independent Panel reviewing the regulation of Lawyers in New Zealand on approaches taken in other jurisdictions, regulatory functions, governance arrangements, and the potential funding implications of alternatives regulatory models
- Advising on the use of finance ability measures in the economic regulation of a natural monopoly (see here).
- Developing a prioritisation framework for the Environmental Protection Agency to use to prioritise the hazardous substances applications it receives
- Advising the Ministry for the Environment on potential mechanisms to support managed retreat as a tool in adapting to the effects of Climate Change. See here
- Advising how to determine if a collaborative marketing application would increase the overall wealth of New Zealand kiwifruit producers.