Geoff Bascand

Geoff Bascand was[1] the Deputy Governor and Head of Operations at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

[4] He started his career in 1981 at the Treasury as an economic analyst and later became Director of Forecasting.

As well as holding senior policy and management positions at the Treasury and the Department of Labour, Bascand has been a Research Fellow at the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University in Australia, and from 1996 until 1997 he was a staff economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.

[6] In February 2005, he was a recipient of a Leadership Development Centre Fellowship award.

He has accepted a position at the Reserve Bank as Deputy Governor and Head of Operations.