The New Zealand Treasury is the government’s lead advisor on economic, financial and regulatory policy. The Treasury provides the government with advice that integrates economic and financial perspectives including interests in institutions, macroeconomic performance and structural policy issues. It operates in partnership with other agencies that have more specific responsibilities, as well as fellow central agencies, to ensure that the public service overall is well placed to fulfil the government’s priorities.
   
The Treasury also has three core roles: 
   

• economic role: concentrates on issues with regulatory or policy implications that may have a significant and therefore pervasive impact on the performance of the economy as a whole
• financial role: concentrates on issues with a significant fiscal focus (expensive policies and long-term trends), and financial management and standards (including financial probity issues)
• central agency role: places more emphasis on helping the government develop its overall strategy and manage significant issues that emerge. 

   
Total income 2010/11: $65.788 million   
Total expenses 2010/11: $65.788 million

 

Appropriation:
Vote Finance 2011/12: $4.698 billion

 

Full-time employees: 319

 

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Ministers

Minister of Finance

Hon Bill English

Associate Ministers of Finance

Hon Steven Joyce

Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman

Minister for State Owned Enterprises

Hon Tony Ryall

Minister for Regulatory Reform

Hon John Banks

 

Management

Chief Executive & Secretary to the Treasury

Gabriel Makhlouf

Deputy Chief Executive

Andrew Kibblewhite

Deputy Secretary, Strategy Change and Performance

Catherine Atkins

Deputy Secretary, Financial Operations / Head of Debt
Management Office (DMO)

Brendon Doyle

Deputy Secretary, Commercial Transactions

John Crawford

Deputy Secretary, Growth and Public Services

Vicky Robertson

Deputy Secretary, Macroeconomic International and
Economic Research / Chief Economist

Dr Girol Karacaoglu

Executive Director, National Infrastructure Unit /
Deputy Secretary, Infrastructure and Public Services

Richard Forgan

Deputy Secretary, Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit

Andrew Turner

Deputy Secretary, Chief Financial Officer/ Chief Accountant

Fergus Walsh