Brad Olsen

Brad Olsen is a senior economist at Infometrics, a leading New Zealand economic consultancy. He focuses on industry- and region-specific economic trends and government fiscal economics. He regularly speaks to media, local government leaders, and business groups about current events and their effect on the economy. Brad is a community leader in New Zealand and serves on the Wellington Citizens Health Council, the Wellington City Youth Council, and the Wellington District Licensing Committee. In 2016, he was named as New Zealand’s Queen’s Young Leader for his youth leadership, receiving a medal from Her Majesty the Queen. 

Brad is a member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation Leadership Network. He travelled to China in 2019 as part of a Leadership Network delegation, attending the Opening Doors to the West business forums organised by the China Chamber of Commerce New Zealand and the municipal governments of the host cities, Chengdu and Xi’an. 

He also travelled to China in late 2023 as a guest of the Foundation, looking at the post-covid economic situation there.