\u201cHayley Gourley brings extensive experience across corporate, rural, and financial services sectors to the role,\u201d Willis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer roles at both board and executive level in leading agribusinesses provide her with a unique perspective that will enhance the committee\u2019s discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Monetary Policy Committee lost its agri expert, Caroline Saunders, when her term expired last year.<\/p>\n
Its internal members (who work fulltime at the Reserve Bank) include interim governor Christian Hawkesby, chief economist Paul Conway and assistant governor Karen Silk.<\/p>\n
Hawkesby has international central banking experience and helped found Harbour Asset Management, Conway has done a lot of research into productivity and Silk has experience in banking.<\/p>\n
Gourley will join Prasanna Gai \u2013 a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Auckland, and Carl Hansen \u2013 who has expertise in the electricity market, as external members.<\/p>\n
Gourley has a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of London\/Imperial College and attended the London Business School under the Rabobank senior leadership programme. She has a Bachelor of Applied Economics, Agricultural Economics, from Massey University.<\/p>\n
Willis is soon due to announce who will be appointed governor for a full term, following Adrian Orr\u2019s abrupt resignation in March.<\/p>\n
Hawkesby and Gai are understood to be among those in the running. <\/p>\n
Labour leader Chris Hipkins said he was consulted with on a proposed candidate on August 18, when Neil Quigley was still chairman of the board that would have made a recommendation to Willis for who it believed should be governor.<\/p>\n