Rod Oram is a New Zealand journalist writing on corporate, economic and political issues. He is a columnist for ''

The Sunday Star-Times The ''Sunday Star-Times'' is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend in Auckland. It covers both national and international news, and is a member of the New Zealand Press Association and Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand. ...

'', a regular broadcaster on radio and television and a frequent public speaker. He is an adjunct professor in the business school at Unitec in Auckland and he has contributed to several regional economic development projects.

Biography

Rod Oram was born in the

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. He spent 20 years as an international financial

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Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...

and North America, and travelled extensively in those continents and in

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. From 1975–1979 Rod held various journalist positions in

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and from 1979–1997 he held a variety of posts at the

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London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

and

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. In 1997 he and his family emigrated to

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, where he was editor of the Business Herald section of ''

The New Zealand Herald ''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspaper ...

'' from 1997–2000. Oram was a triple award-winner at the 2004

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s; as business columnist of the year, business feature writer of the year and winner of the

NZTE New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is New Zealand's economic development and trade promotion agency. It offers strategic advice, access to networks and influencers, research and market intelligence, and targeted financial support to help bus ...

travel scholarship for his writing on innovation in New Zealand.Better by Design 2005
New Zealand Needs Design
Rod Oram In the 2006

Westpac Westpac Banking Corporation, known simply as Westpac, is an Australian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered at Westpac Place in Sydney, New South Wales. Established in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales, ...

Business & Financial Journalism Awards Oram won the Reporting on Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability or Community Engagement category.

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published Oram’s book about the

New Zealand economy The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy. It is the 51st-largest national economy in the world when measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 63rd-largest in the world when measured by purchasing pow ...

,
Reinventing Paradise
', in August 2007. In August 2016, Oram's boo
''Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene''
was published by Bridget Williams Books.

References

External links

Rod Oram's
columns at ''

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