Lewis Evans
Professor Lewis Evans, of Porirua, received the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education. Professor Evans’ has been Professor of Economics at Victoria University of Wellington since 1988, where his current research includes the performance of contracts, firms and markets under different competition and regulatory structures. He is a lay member of the High Court and a member of the Ministerial Review of Electricity Market Performance. Professor Evans was involved in the establishment of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation and served as Executive Director from 1998 to 2004.