Oliver is the Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative. Before joining the Initiative, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, the Chief Economist at the Policy Exchange in London, and an advisor in the UK House of Lords.
Oliver holds a master's degree in economics and business administration and a PhD in Law from Bochum University in Germany.
Oliver is available to comment on all of the Initiative’s research areas.
Phone: +64 4 499 0790
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to SBS Radio about Brexit (in German). Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Larry Williams from Newstalk ZB about the implications of Brexit for New Zealand. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the fluctuating international markets following the vote for the UK to leave the European Union, and how New Zealand could benefit from offering the UK our technical expertise. Read more
The best cartoon on the Greek crisis just ran in London’s Daily Telegraph. Five identical images depict a sternly looking German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Newshub following the Brexit results and calls on the New Zealand government to provide technical assistance to the UK as it negotiates new trade deals. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the Brexit results and the future of Europe. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Paul Henry about Brexit ahead of Britons voting in the referendum, and makes some predictions about David Cameron's future as Prime Minister. Read more
It is midday New Zealand time, and in Britain they have just started counting the votes of their referendum on EU membership. Polling day surveys show a narrow lead for the Remain camp. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to Radio New Zealand about maths in schools, and our recent research which found that one in three New Zealand primary school teachers could not add simple fractions. Read more
Groucho Marx did not want to belong to any club that accepted people like him as members. Next Thursday, the British will have to decide if they feel the same way about the European Union. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, talks to ABC Radio about the possibility of the UK voting to leave the European Union, following news that German government bond yields have turned into negative territory. Investors are now paying the German government to hold their money, fearing that the UK will opt for Brexit. Read more
Perhaps the defining global economic issue of this decade has been inequality. The notion that a free market economy promotes inequality is having an impact on the political climate. Read more
Our Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich, joins Paul Henry to discuss the Government's announced Housing Policy Statement. Read more
Auckland’s housing crisis produces some strange side effects. One of them is that the word ‘boarding school’ might acquire a new meaning. Read more
If there is one art Prime Minister John Key’s New Zealand government has mastered, it is expectation management. So for its eighth budget, delivered yesterday, expectations were low. Read more