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Full Name
Dr Susan Morrissey
Preferred Name
Suzy
Pronouns
She/her
Country
New Zealand
Gender
Woman
Affiliation(s)
FCA (CAANZ)
About Me
I am a public servant in New Zealand. My position is Director, Policy at the Retirement Commission. I focus on welfare policies that impact retirement and retirement savings, conduct and commission research, write educational and critical material on policy, and provide advice to Ministers on retirement policy.
I am also a Research Associate at the Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Previously I was Principal Advisor to the Chief Economist at the New Zealand Treasury. In that role I helped develop the ‘Living Standards Framework’, a multi-dimensional measure of wellbeing for policy advice, which was adopted by the Labour Government to formulate the world’s first ‘Wellbeing Budget’ in 2019.
I am co-founder and co-organiser of the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Hub of the Wellbeing Economies Alliance (or WEAll). We work to help individuals, businesses, and policymakers (at national and sub-national level) to apply a wellbeing approach.
I am a Chartered Accountant by profession (CA) and was awarded fellowship (FCA) in 2018. I hold a PhD in Taxation, Masters in Applied Taxation, B.Comm in Professional Accounting.
Expertise by Geography
East Asia and Pacific
Expertise by sub-field
Economics of Distribution / Inequality, Economics of Public Policy, Feminist Economics / Economics of Gender, Financial Economics / Money and Banking, Labor Economics, Wellbeing economics
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Research Gate
www.researchgate.net/profile/Suzy-Morrissey
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