Rod Oram

Rod Oram has 30 years' experience as an international financial journalist. He has worked in Europe and North America for leading publications such as the Financial Times of London and travelled extensively in those continents and in Asia.

Rod and his family emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in 1997. He is currently Contributing Editor at Unlimited, a New Zealand monthly magazine devoted to the development of the new economy; a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times; a regular broadcaster on radio and television; a frequent public speaker on business and economic issues; and an occasional correspondent for the Financial Times.

He was Editor of the Business Herald section of the New Zealand Herald, 1997-2000.

Rod is an Adjunct Professor in the New Zealand Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Unitec, and he has contributed to several recent regional economic development projects.

In the 2004 Qantas Media Awards, Rod was a triple winner as Newspaper Columnist of the Year and Magazine Feature Writer of the Year (both in the business category), and recipient of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise’s Travel Scholarship in recognition for his writing on NZ innovation.