From: Roger Kerr Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 3:58 p.m. To: Sir Douglas Myers Subject: Honours Attachments: Letter from the Prime Minister.pdf; Letter from the Governor-General.pdf Dear Douglas See the attached letters. I have a suspicion you were in the loop. The plotters got together a pretty solid line up of supporters – Bill Gallagher, […]
When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets
<This op-ed first appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 25, 2021> It’s one thing for business leaders to sit out policy debates, but it’s quite another for them to argue for policies that will harm long-term shareholder interests. Yet that’s what we’re witnessing today with the likes of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos supporting raising the […]
Reflections on a Life Well Lived—Tribute to Sir Ron Trotter
Eulogy by Roger Kerr, Old St. Paul’s, Wellington, 17 August 2010 Margaret and the family have asked me to reflect on Sir Ron’s role in business and public affairs and I’m honoured to do so. I loved Ron like a father. So it was with a heavy heart that I sat down to write these […]
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<This is the text of a speech delivered to the Washington Policy Center monthly breakfast on July 27, 2017> Many of you may be familiar with New Zealand’s reforms from an economic perspective, so I’m going to spend more of my talk focused on two other areas: How policies before and after the reforms impacted […]