Collection: Jonathan Boston

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Jonathan Boston is the author of Insuring the Future: Reimagining Home Insurance in Aotearoa (2026). He is an Emeritus Professor of Public Policy who has published widely on public management, social policy, climate change policy, tertiary education and comparative government. At Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, he has served as Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies and Director of the Institute of Policy Studies, and earlier worked for the New Zealand Treasury and taught at the University of Canterbury. He has contributed to major public policy initiatives, including tertiary education reform, the funding of research, and measures to reduce child poverty. During 2022–23 he served on the Expert Working Group on Managed Retreat. A 2014 Fulbright Fellow, he is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Helen Clark Foundation, co-edits Policy Quarterly, and has served on several boards, including Oxfam Aotearoa.