Treasury Presentation - Budget '25: Economic & fiscal outlook (IN-PERSON)

Join the Treasury’s Chief Economic Advisor, Dominick Stephens for a presentation on the Budget 2025 economic and fiscal outlook.

The Budget 2025 Economic and Fiscal Update is part of the wider package of the Budget documents being released on 22 May 2025. Join this seminar if you would like to better understand the Treasury economic and fiscal forecasts which underpin Budget 2025.

The Treasury’s Chief Economic Advisor will outline the Treasury’s position on the international and New Zealand economic outlook; and the implications for forecasts of aggregate fiscal indicators, such as revenue and the Government’s operating balance and debt indicators.

Dominick will also touch on some of the long-term fiscal issues that the Treasury will be exploring in the three stewardship reports it is publishing over 2025. See here for more information: The Treasury’s stewardship reports | The Treasury New Zealand

This will be a hybrid event, so you are welcome to join either in person or virtually. There will be an opportunity for a discussion.

About this event

This will be a hybrid event. Please use this site to register if you plan to attend it in person.

If you would like to attend it virtually, please use THIS LINK to register.

About the presenter

Dominick Stephens is responsible for ensuring that the Treasury’s policy advice on lifting New Zealand living standards is supported and strengthened by sound economic theory and evidence. As part of that role, Dominick is responsible for the Treasury’s economic forecasts.

Prior to coming to the Treasury in 2021, Dominick was Chief Economist at Westpac New Zealand for a decade, leading its team providing forecasts and research on the New Zealand economy. He is a respected analyst, adviser and commentator on a range of economic and market issues, from housing policy to monetary policy and climate change. He was formerly an Economist in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s forecasting team and modelling unit.

Dominick is from Christchurch and graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Economics.

More information

The Treasury’s latest economic and fiscal forecasts can be found here: Budget Economic and Fiscal Update 2025

The Treasury’s stewardship reports | The Treasury New Zealand.

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