Mark Cox

Mark has worked at various times in academia, an industry body and in government agencies. However, the majority of his time has been spent working as a consultant, both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

His sector work has covered agriculture and horticulture, food and beverages, building and construction, tourism, and the arts and culture. Mark is skilled at developing new approaches to the analysis of policy issues and economic development challenges.

Mark's skills:

• Incisive market and sector studies to highlight development opportunities
• Thorough policy and strategy development to inform actions by decision makers
• Convincing business cases to help secure investment funding
• Cost benefit analysis and impact assessment to give confidence about decisions
• Economic modelling to support options analysis.

His experience includes:

• Influences on spending on pokie gambling for the Department of Internal Affairs 
• Population and dwelling projections for Kāpiti District Council
• Analysing the changing profile of international tourism in New Zealand, pro bono research on behalf of BERL.

Mark enjoys taking the road less travelled when driving around New Zealand, and discovering scenic gems along the way. He relaxes by watching football, rugby and athletics, and digging lots of holes on their quarter acre of paradise for his better half to plant things in.