

She was a member of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Board from 2005-09. Waring has held Fellowships at Harvard and Rutgers universities in the United States, Queen's University in Canada and at the Hawke Institute in Australia, and was a Visiting Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University in China.

She is an acclaimed author, development consultant and United Nations expert - and supervises 30 PhD and Master's students at the Auckland University of Technology's North Campus in Northcote as Professor of Public Policy.

Waring wanted women, all over, to be more economically empowered - and her crusade continues to this day.
