Jean-Pierre de Raad

Chief Executive

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Jean-Pierre first joined NZIER in 2001 and was appointed Chief Executive in September 2008. He has provided economic advice on a wide range of public policy issues, ranging from an evaluation of a health service contracting method to estimating the relationship between electricity firms’ costs and the quality of their services. Jean-Pierre is also closely involved in the NZIER benchmarking of the quality of policy advice. From October 2003 to October 2004, Jean-Pierre was the national policy manager at ACC. Prior to 2001 Jean-Pierre was an economic advisor at the Ministry of Health.

Key specialist areas

• Public policy
• Health & education policy
• Cost benefit and regulatory impact analysis

Recent projects

• Analysis requirements for tertiary education funding advice
• Pricing methods for health service purchasers
• Advice on aspects of strategy for the ambulance sector
• Review of the quality of regulatory impact statements
• Regulatory impact analysis of proposed changes to the Takeovers Code
• Joint study of a potential free trade agreement with Korea
• Case study of competitiveness impact of the emissions trading scheme
• Evaluation of health purchasing pilot
• Assessment of early childhood education policy
• Cost recovery options for a regulatory agency
• Feasibility study of shared services
• Long term health care expenditure and financing models