Colin James was a political journalist from 1969 to 2019 (except for four years in London in the mid-1970s and political columnist of the year in 2003). He wrote weekly columns in a number of newspapers over those decades until December 2017 and then a few articles until May 2019. He edited National Business Review from January 1983 to December 1986 He was associated with the Institute of Policy Studies then the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington (www.igps.victoria.ac.nz) from 1995 to 2020. He has written eight books (the latest, in 2017, were Unquiet Time. Aotearoa/New Zealand in a fast-changing world and National at 80) plus several editions of an election guide for journalists and many chapters in books and edited or wrote six books or monographs for the Institute of Policy Studies. He contributed many papers to seminars, conferences and symposiums in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and held several university fellowships, including JD Stout Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington in 1991 and inaugural New Zealand Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne University in 1993. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Victoria University in 2008 and was made a Companion of the Order of New Zealand (CNZM) in 2023. He is a past chair of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research (www.motu.org.nz). He is a fellow of the Institute of Public Administration and a life member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and E Tu Union. Until 2020 he made presentations on the strategic political, policy and political-economy environment to companies, industry associations, government departments and other groups and from 1990 to 2013 was managing director of The Hugo Group (www.TheHugoGroup.com), a forecasting panel with a membership of more than 100 medium to large corporates.
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