After graduation she initially worked in New York before moving to New Zealand in 1987 where she was employed by the Treasury as an economist.
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From 1984 to 1990 he was economic and financial councillor for the New Zealand delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, eventually becoming director of macroeconomic policy at the New Zealand Treasury in 1990.