[2] He had a long but intermittent career at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
[4] In 1989, Goodstadt was appointed by then-Governor Sir David Wilson as the head of the newly established Central Policy Unit.
He kept serving in the role after Chris Patten succeeded Wilson in 1992, and retired following the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, after which he moved to Dublin and became an adjunct professor at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.
Goodstadt served as editorial director of Asiabanking between 1981 and 1986, as well as Hong Kong correspondent for Euromoney (1978-1988) and the Times (1967-1973).
She also founded the Hong Kong Society for the Aged (SAGE), and was a co-founder of the Association of Female Senior Government Officers, a powerful staff association that campaigned for equal treatment of men and women in the Hong Kong civil service.