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Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley discusses the effects of New Zealand's demographic changes on governance and leadership.
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 Emeritus, 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) by PM Jacinda Ardern.
Paul is a Fellow and board member of the Auckland Museum; a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany; and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of California Berkeley in 2010. He was awarded the Science and Technology Medal by the Royal Society in 2009 for cross-cultural understanding.
Paul is the author or editor of 29 books, the most recent being The New New Zealand. Facing Demographic Disruption (2021) and Histories of Hate. The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand (2023). He was Ranginui Walker’s biographer (Mata Toa. The Life and Times of Ranginui Walker). He has researched and written on social cohesion, racism, Pākehā identity, demographic change, white supremacism and antisemitism, immigration policy and settlement, and the impacts of diversity.
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