Rob is our Principal Consultant with over 25 years’ experience in quantitative economic research, modelling, and analysis. Rob has extensive experience analysing regional economies, sectors, labour markets, migration trends and the tertiary education sector in New Zealand, the UK and in Australia.

Rob has expertise in carrying out workforce environmental scans to inform workforce development strategies, economic impact assessments to inform investment decisions and state of the economy regional reports to inform regional decision making.

Rob has recently completed a wide range of consultancy projects such as an analysis of the effect that short-term rental platforms have on local housing markets, barriers that Māori face entering and remaining in the health workforce, analysis of the Māori talent pool, valuing the economic contribution of unpaid carers, an economic analysis of the Software as a Service (SaaS) sector, and the post-pandemic outlook for the Arts and Creative sector.

Rob has also recently written articles on the effect of cost-of-living pressures on households, the effect of Artificial Intelligence on the labour market, school attendance, productivity, economic diversity, open banking, the disabled workforce, labour market flows, transport economics, the classifications of skills in the labour market, and the implications of zero emissions policies on the labour market.

Rob has an MSc in Economics from Warwick University and a BA (Hons, 1st class) in Economics from the University of the West of England in the UK.