Speakers

Mark Storey

Head of Economics & Insights

Mark Storey is Head of Economics & Insights at DairyNZ, where he leads work on the economic drivers shaping New Zealand’s dairy sector performance, profitability and long-term resilience. He brings more than three decades of experience across economics, policy, science leadership and international engagement, with a particular focus on agriculture, trade, climate and environmental policy.

Mark provides strategic leadership across DairyNZ’s Economics & Insights team and contributes to research and science programmes that support competitive and sustainable dairy farm businesses. He is a regular commentator on the opportunities and challenges facing dairy farmers, including productivity, competitiveness, climate resilience and sector adaptation.

Before joining DairyNZ, Mark held senior roles at New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment, including Manager of Climate Policy, where he helped lead development of the country’s first Emissions Reduction Plan and contributed to major climate legislation, including the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme.

Mark has also worked with the Swedish Ministry of Finance, Swedish Energy Agency, OECD in Paris and Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Earlier, he supported New Zealand’s WTO trade negotiating team and represented governments in United Nations climate negotiations, including on international climate finance.

He holds a Master of Science in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Otago. From a dairy farming family, Mark also co-owns a dairy farm and forestry property in the North Waikato.