Rod Oram Financial Journalist

We are well into a post-industrial age and it is becoming ever clearer that sustainability is not only a moral imperative, but good business. Rod Oram explains the economic benefits of natural capitalism. How New Zealand can design businesses that connect with new market opportunities to extract new value.

We need to build a sustainable country not just in the environmental sense but also in terms of economic, social and cultural values. If our business and our communities and our cultures work hand in hand in enduring ways we will realize our extensive and distinctive potential.

Rod Oram has more than 30 years’ experience as an international financial journalist. He has worked for various publications in Europe and North America, including the Financial Times of London. Rod and his family emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in 1997. He was editor of the Business Herald section of the New Zealand Herald from 1997-2000. He is currently a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times and Good Magazine; a regular broadcaster on radio and television; and a frequent public speaker. Rod is an adjunct professor in the Business School at Unitec. And Penguin published in 2007 his book on the New Zealand economy, Reinventing Paradise.