Dr Marilyn Waring
Professor of Public Policy, Massey University
Dr Marilyn Waring is Professor of Public Policy on the Albany Campus of Massey University New Zealand. She was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the age of 23 and served 3 terms, chairing the Public Expenditure Committee, and forcing the snap election in 1984 on the issue of nuclear ship visits to New Zealand.
Dr Waring is internationally recognised for her seminal and ground breaking work Counting for Nothing - what men value and what women are worth - also published as If Women Counted, which was the subject of the best selling National Film Board of Canada documentary Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex,Lies and Global Economics.
Marilyn Waring has been an advisor to GPI Atlantic, and was a major advocate in the work to introduce time use surveys into the New Zealand statistical calendar.
Dr Waring has been worked in a number of countries in South East Asia and the Pacific as a development consultant, and is in demand for work on subsistance and informal production, and the monitoring and evaluation of outcomes based programmes. In 2003 she was appointed to the Board of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
