Murray Petrie

Title

Senior Associate

Profile

MA (Hons) Canterbury; Master of Public Administration (Harvard), PhD (Victoria).

Murray has had extensive experience in public policy and public management since 1980. He has worked for the New Zealand Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He has been a consultant to public sector organizations in NZ and internationally since 1997. He is an active member of the IMF’s Panel of Fiscal Experts, and has participated in over 30 missions to IMF member countries.
Murray is also a founding member and Deputy Chair of Transparency International New Zealand, the NZ chapter of the Berlin-based international anti-corruption NGO. He is an active contributor to international civil society budget transparency initiatives, such as the Open Budget Index.

Murray’s main professional and research interests are in the fields of:

1. Public financial management and budgeting.
2. Governance, accountability and transparency.
3. Public sector reform and performance management.
4. Public policy analysis, including social policy analysis.
5. International policy cooperation.

Selected publications:
Jurisdictional Integration: How Economic Globalisation is Changing State Sovereignty.
PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington. April 2009. Available at http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/893/thesis.pdf?sequence=1

Fiscal Risks: Sources, Disclosure, and Management. A. Cebotari, J. Davis, L. Lusinyan, A. Mati, P. Mauro, M. Petrie, and R. Velloso. International Monetary Fund: Fiscal Affairs Department. 2009.

Public-Private Partnerships, Government Guarantees, and Fiscal Risk, R. Hemming, M. Alier, B. Anderson, and M. Petrie, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, 2006.

The Implications of Population Ageing for Families, in “The Implications of Population Ageing: Opportunities and Risks”, Edited by Jonathan Boston and Judith Davey, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006.

Promoting Fiscal Transparency The Complementary Roles of the IMF, Financial Markets and Civil Society  IMF Working Paper 03/199.

National Integrity Systems Country Study Report New Zealand 2003, with John Henderson and Shane Cave.

A Framework for Public Sector Performance Contracting, The OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 1, No.3, 2002.

Accounting and Financial Accountability to Capture Risk, in “Government at Risk”, H. Polackova Brixi and A. Schick (eds), The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2002 (Chapter 2).
Institutions, social norms and well-being, Treasury Working Paper 02/12, June 2002.

Transparency and Accountability in New Zealand: An Assessment, Public Sector, Vol.24, No.1, March 2001.

A Contribution to a Research Strategy on Children’s Life Outcomes, with Dr. Janice Wright, Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, Issue Sixteen, July 2001.

Review of Evidence on Broad Outcome of Public Sector Management Regime, with David Webber, New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 01/06, 2001.

Output-Based Aid: Precedents, Promises, and Challenges, with Penelope Brook, Introductory chapter of a book “Contracting for public services: output-based aid and its applications”, World Bank, 2001.

Organisational Transformation: The Income Support Experience, Case Study, Department of Social Welfare, Wellington, 1998.