2009 PANZ Conference: Keynote Speakers

Opening Address

HON PANSY WONG
Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women’s Affairs, MP for Botany.

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International Guest Speakers

Miss CHAN Ka-lin
Assistant Commissioner (Social), Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)
Topic:Sizing a City of Mobility: Case Study of Hong Kong

Miss Chan obtained her degree of Bachelor of Social Sciences and her degree of Master of Statistics from the University of Hong Kong. She holds the membership of several local and international statistical societies, including the renowned International Statistical Institute. She has served in the executive committee of the Hong Kong Statistical Society for several years and was the Vice-President of the Society in 2005.

Miss Chan joined the local civil service as a Statistician in 1979 and has worked in a number of official statistical areas ranging from economic statistics, social statistics, population and demographic statistics and statistical quality assurance programmes. She was appointed the Assistant Commissioner for Census and Statistics by the HKSAR Government in September 2005.

Jeremy Reynolds
Manager, Spatial Analysis and Research, Strategic Policy Research and Forecasting Division, Department of Planning and Community Development, Victoria, Australia
Topic: The Use of Population Statistics in Planning

Jeremy Reynolds is Manager of Demographic Research at the Department of Planning and Community Development in Victoria, Australia. He has worked on urban and regional planning and development issues since 1971. His career commenced with work on housing renewal projects in London’s East End, moving to work on metropolitan planning strategies and regional development issues in Victoria in 1975. One of his unit’s main tasks is preparing population projections for the State, regions and local government areas. These projections are used to plan infrastructure and service delivery across Victoria. In 2007 Jeremy received the Victorian Planning and Environment Law Association’s annual award for public service.

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New Zealand guest speakers

Cathryn Ashley-Jones
Deputy Government Statistician, Social and Population Statistics, Statistics New Zealand
Topic: Strategic Issues for the 2011 Census and Beyond

Prof Richard Bedford
Director, Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato
Topic: International migration in an era of increasing economic and evironmental uncertainty: A New Zealand perspective

Prof Mason Durie
Professor of Māori Research and Development & Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori & Pasifika), Office of the Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori & Pasifika), Massey University
Topic: Māori 2030

Dr Martin Tobias
Principal Public Health Specialist, Ministry of Health
Topic:Longer Life, Better Health?

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After dinner speaker

David Shand

David Shand returned to New Zealand in 2006 after an international career in public sector reform which spanned some 30 years since he left New Zealand. In Australia he held senior financial and management positions in the federal government and the Victorian and Queensland state governments. He worked for four years for the OECD in Paris and then in Washington DC for nine years with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on public sector reform issues in developing countries.

Apart from his membership of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, David chaired the 2007 Independent Inquiry into Local Government Rates established by the Minister of Local Government. His local government experience also includes six years as a Wellington City Councillor in the 1970s. He is also currently chair of the Tertiary Education Commission.