Susan Margaret St John is an economist from New Zealand. She is a lecturer at the

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and spokesperson for the

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. St John graduated with a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Auckland in 1979. She has been a member of the university's teaching staff since 1981, initially in economics, and since 2012 in public policy. Her research has focused on the

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, public sector and retirement policy. In 1994 she became a founding member of the Child Poverty Action Group, and has edited and authored a large number of reports for them. In 2003 St John completed a doctorate at the

on the role of private savings in retirement policy in New Zealand. In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, St John was appointed a

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, for services to social policy. In the

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, she was appointed a

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, also for services to social policy.

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