About the Economics Team

Sharon joined the Economics team in 2010 and became Chief Economist in late 2017. She started her career as a macroeconomist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 1998, and has also worked at the Central Bank of Norway. Sharon created the Truckometer in 2012. 

David Croy joined the strategy team from trading, where he ran ANZ's NZGB trading book. Prior to that, David held several roles on the buy-side, most recently as AllianceBernstein’s NZ fixed interest PM. David has also held various other strategy research and interest rate sales roles, in both Wellington and London. David has over 30 years' experience in financial markets and holds a master’s degree in finance and economics (with distinction) from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Matt covers New Zealand’s agricultural sector. He publishes the Agri Focus and related research papers. Matt joined ANZ in 2025 from Fonterra, where he analysed global dairy market supply and demand dynamics for the Commodity Risk and Trading business unit. Prior to that, Matt was an agricultural economist and policy analyst at the Ministry for Primary Industries for nine years. In that role, he was lead editor of the Situation and Outlook of Primary Industries publication. Matt holds a BBA in Economics from the University of Oklahoma and an MSc in Population and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Miles joined ANZ in 2018 from the New Zealand Treasury, where he spent the previous four years working on fiscal strategy advice, macroeconomic policy, and the Treasury’s economic and tax forecasts. Miles’s day-to-day activities include monitoring economic developments, contributing to the economic forecasts and writing key publications, such as the Morning Focus, Market Focus and Quarterly Economic Forecasts.

Matthew joined ANZ in 2025 from the New Zealand Treasury, where he spent the previous five years working on economic analysis, unconventional monetary policy, and fiscal policy. Prior to this Matthew worked at the RBNZ for several years across monetary policy and financial stability, and also had a stint working on housing market policy at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. Matthew’s day-to-day activities include monitoring economic developments, producing economic forecasts and writing key publications such as the Morning Focus, Weekly Data Wrap, Property Focus, and Quarterly Economic Outlook. Matthew holds an honours degree in economics from the University of Canterbury.

Kyle started with the ANZ in 2015. Kyle was previously employed at Statistics New Zealand. He oversees the team's statistical information, an array of regional information, the Business Outlook survey and other proprietary indicators. Kyle is the 'go to' person for economic statistics.

Natalie joined the ANZ economics team in 2011, after 16 years working as a desktop publisher for Westpac. Main duties are preparation, formatting and distributing all the economic reports, maintaining the customer database for the economic releases, and be point of call for Chief Economist’s diary.