Leadership and governance in a changing world: The new demography of New Zealand

Overview

New Zealand is undergoing major demographic change. It began in 2013 with a spike in immigration and the first of the Baby Boomers arriving at the age of 65 (which is not the age of retirement for many New Zealanders). Rapid ageing of the population combined with declining fertility is changing the structure of communities while immigration is significantly changing the diversity of New Zealand.

The final element is where people live and work: some regions and communities are experiencing population stagnation (little or no growth) while others are already in population decline, while some communities (notably in the top half of the North Island) are growing rapidly.  
 
What does all this mean for governance and leadership in our sectors, organisations and firms, or communities? 

Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley

FRSNZ

Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley stood down as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University in 2019. He was then appointed as an advisor to the Commissioner of Police and in 2022, was appointed as the Co-Director of He Whenua Taurikura (National Centre for Countering Violent Extremism).

Paul is a Fellow of the Auckland Museum and a Board member, a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany and he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of California Berkeley. He was the lead researcher on a project looking at “Capturing the Diversity Dividend” and what New Zealand would look like in 2038. He is the author or editor of 29 books, one of the most recent being The New New Zealand. Facing Demographic Disruption (2021).  

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