Commerce minister Lianne Dalziel has appointed Auckland business economist, and Asset columnist Donal Curtin as a member of the Commerce Commission.
Curtin has been an associate commission member since January 2001 with responsibilities encompassing the network industries. He has extensive experience in analysing and forecasting the economic environment for investing, and in designing investment portfolios and analysing investments.
Curtin has wide experience in applying economics to commercial decisions. After a variety of economist roles in his native Ireland, London, and Japan, Curtin migrated to New Zealand in 1985, becoming the Bank of New Zealand's chief economist, and later heading the bank's national financial adviser team. In 1999 he set up Auckland-based consultancy, Economics New Zealand, which specialises in providing insight into New Zealand financial markets, principally for institutional advisers. This year he became an advisor on monetary policy to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee.
