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Seeking sense: Rod Oram

Beijing, London and Chicago: Watching these three cities makes sense, says international business journalist Rod Oram.

Oram, a journalist with 40 years’ experience, will give a talk entitled Seeking sense: Hope from three cities at the Hastings Library on Friday, at the invitation of Friends of the Hastings District Libraries.

Friends spokesman, Dr Richard Peach, says: “Rod Oram is a well-respected columnist, broadcaster, and public speaker on business, economics and entrepreneurship, in both New Zealand and global contexts.”

Oram believes Beijing, London and Chicago, each in their own way, offer many varied insights into how people and their economies could live more within the constants of the ecosystem in 10 years’ time.

“While the pressures in the three cities are intense and the risks of failure high, the people I interviewed in the cities last September gave me some hope we can begin to work with the ecosystem not against it”, said Oram.

“The insights are valuable to us in New Zealand because we are more urbanized here than are the people in many European countries.”

Oram is a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times, and has worked for various publications in Europe and North America, including the Financial Times of London.

For more than a decade, Oram has been helping fast-growing New Zealand companies through his involvement with The ICEHOUSE, the entrepreneurship centre at the University of Auckland’s Business School.

In 2010, Rod was the winner in the individual category in the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards and was Columnist of the Year in the consumer category in the national magazine awards for his columns in Good, a consumer sustainability magazine. He was named the Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year for 2009.

Tickets to the Friends of the Hastings District Libraries fundraiser,, 7pm, May 13, are $10 each and available from Hastings District Libraries.

4 October 2017

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