Providing services in strategic policy and analysis particularly in the governance and management of natural resources. Long-term experience in common-pool resource policy, particularly fisheries and freshwater policy and management.

Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector Policy to February 2013Seconded out to joint MPI - MfE water directorate March - August 2013Climate, Land and Water Team, Resource Policy Directorate from September 2013 September 2015, working to support Government freshwater management reforms, including supporting development of good management practices in the primary sectors to increase efficiency of resource use and reduce impacts on the freshwater and coastal environment.

Six month placement in the joint MPI - MfE Water Directorate, a unit established to provide recommendations to government Ministers on reforms to freshwater management policy based on recommendations of the Land & Water Forum.

Fantastic experience working with talented crew and surrounded by very smart and savvy set of stakeholders in a collaborative policy environment. Thanks. This stakeholder driven collaboration to transform policy for freshwater management in NZ has been a resounding success, providing more leadership and change from four years work than standard government policy processes had managed in twenty. People with something personal and real at stake and no time to waste, getting down to the tough conversations, and coming to understand eachother and eachother's values in new ways. It has transformed the way that the participants operate in a very positive way.

Worked on a wide range of fisheries management policy, predominantly concerned with statutory basis for management of commercial, recreational and customary fisheries. New Zealand's commercial quota management system (QMS) interacts with less strictly controlled recreational and Maori customary fisheries presenting complex and interesting policy problems. The QMS is inherently stable and provides a strong basis for rational management of fisheries. Like many natural resource management areas, the values, issues and interactions are complex and change over time. Hence the system, although fundamentally robust, requires intelligent maintenance and development over time.