The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 847 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 66th most number of Businesspeople behind The Gambia, and Côte d'Ivoire.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Marilyn Waring (b. 1952)
With an HPI of 36.85, Marilyn Waring is the most famous New Zealander Businessperson. Her biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Dame Marilyn Joy Waring (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand public policy scholar, international development consultant, former politician, environmentalist, feminist and a principal founder of feminist economics. In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the centre-right New Zealand National Party. As a member of parliament she chaired the Public Expenditure Committee. Her support of the opposition Labour Party's proposed nuclear-free New Zealand policy was instrumental in precipitating the 1984 New Zealand general election, and she left parliament in 1984. On leaving parliament she moved into academia; she is best known for her 1988 book If Women Counted, and she obtained a D.Phil in politics in 1989. Through her research and writing she is known as the principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics. Since 2006, Waring has been a professor of public policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT, focusing on governance and public policy, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights. She has taken part in international aid work and served as a consultant to UNDP and other international organisations. She has outspokenly criticised the concept of gross domestic product (GDP), the economic measure that became a foundation of the United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA) following World War II. She criticises a system which "counts oil spills and wars as contributors to economic growth, while child-rearing and housekeeping are deemed valueless". Her work has influenced academics, government accounting in a number of countries, and United Nations policies. Waring has had a long-time involvement with the Association for Women's Rights in Development, a progressive feminist organisation that advocates inclusive feminism, and served on its board until 2012. In 2021 she was appointed by the World Health Organization as a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as New Zealander businesspeople born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living New Zealander businesspeople include Marilyn Waring.
