Dr Richard Meade has recently given evidence on our behalf in Stafford v Attorney-General.

 

Dr Meade is an economic consultant and researcher, and Principal Economist at economic consulting and research practice Cognitus Economic Insight.

 

He is also a Senior Research Fellow at AUT – Auckland University of Technology, President of the Law & Economics Association of New Zealand (LEANZ), and a member of many academic and professional associations, including the New Zealand Association of Economists.

 

He has a PhD in industrial organisation and regulation, and MPhil and MSc each in economic theory and econometrics, all from the Toulouse School of Economics – TSE, and a BSc (Hons) in statistics and operations research, BSc in statistics and operations research, and BCA in economics and finance, all from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

 

He has significant experience advising and acting for Māori organisations on Treaty, commercial and strategic matters.

 

This includes acting as commercial advisor and negotiator for Ngāi Tahu in its Treaty settlement negotiations, in which he assessed its long-term historical losses.

 

He has been involved in many settlement negotiations and resumption applications since then.

 

Dr Meade provided an independent assessment of the economic position that the customary owners would be in had the Crown fulfilled its fiduciary duties.

 

This is a hugely important element of our case. Ngā mihi Dr Meade.