Key Staff

EXPERIENCE

Fraser is a highly-skilled consultant with 22 years’ commercial experience, who has successfully completed 450 projects across a wide range of sectors. As one of New Zealand’s leading economic experts, he has helped clients gain planning permission or funding approval for projects worth more than $15 billion, including:

•  NZ’s largest gas field (Maui)
•  A $400 million 5-star hotel/convention facility in PNG
•  A $250 million infant milk formula plant
•  The velodrome and cycling centre of excellence in Cambridge
•  A 100-hectare mussel farm
•  The expansion of Millbrook Resort in Arrowtown
•  Several of NZ’s largest residential developments
•  Dozens of commercial/retail developments

Fraser also has a strong track record in policy analysis, and has helped shape a number of key local and central Government policies, such as:

•  Local alcohol policies in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin
•  Minimum parking requirements in Auckland
•  Class 4 gambling (pokies) in Christchurch
•  Heritage protection in Hamilton
•  Affordable housing in Queenstown
•  Genetically modified organisms in Hastings
•  Modal shifts to walking/cycling for the Ministry of Transport

In addition, Fraser has helped a wide range of Council and developer clients to negotiate development contributions (DC) agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including securing a $10 million refund on behalf of developers following the first ever judicial review of a DC policy in 2007.

Prior to forming Insight, Fraser was a founding director of another consultancy (Covec Limited) for 12 years.

EDUCATION

BCom (1st Class Honours) in Economics from the University of Auckland

• Graduated as top economics student with an overall GPA of 96%
• Awarded the Post Graduate Scholarship in Economics
• Awarded the Senior Prize in Economics
• Awarded the Annual Prize in Economics
• Voted Economics Tutor of the Year by students