Rod Oram

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Rod Oram is a New Zealand journalist writing on corporate, economic and political issues. He is a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times and Good Magazine, 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. [1]

[edit] Biography

Rod Oram was born in the UK. He spent 20 years as an international financial journalist in Europe and North America, and travelled extensively in those continents and in Asia. From 1975-1979 Rod held various journalist positions in Canada and from 1979-1997 he held a variety of posts at the Financial Times, London and New York. ^[1]

In 1997 he and his family emigrated to New Zealand, where he was editor of the Business Herald section of the New Zealand Herald from 1997-2000. Oram was a triple award-winner at the 2004 Qantas Awards; as business columnist of the year, business feature writer of the year and winner of the NZTE travel scholarship for his writing on innovation in New Zealand. ^[2]

In the 2006 Westpac Business & Financial Journalism Awards Rod won the Reporting on Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability or Community Engagement category.

Penguin published Rod’s book about the New Zealand economy, Reinventing Paradise, in August, 2007.