Our principals
Dr John
Llewellyn 


     
 




Before forming Llewellyn Consulting:

John spent almost ten years in academia (University of Cambridge); seventeen years in international public service (OECD); and fourteen years in the corporate sector (Lehman Brothers).

A New Zealander, he received his undergraduate degree at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and his Doctorate at the University of Oxford. In 1970 he was appointed a Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. From 1972 he was a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and in 1974 he was appointed Assistant Director of Research in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge.


H
e then spent seventeen years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he was in charge of international economic forecasting and policy analysis, editor of the OECD Economic Outlook, then Deputy Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education, and finally Head of the Secretary-General’s Private Office (Chief of Staff).


From 1995 to 2008 he was at Lehman Brothers, first as Chief Economist Europe, then as Global Chief Economist, and finally as Senior Economic Policy Advisor.

John has published on a wide range of topics, including: international economic policymaking and co-ordination; economic forecasting, climate change, population ageing, and the war in Iraq. Together with two former colleagues, he has published two books: one on the international aspects of forecasting, modelling, and economic co-operation; and the other on economic policies for the 1990s.

In 2007 Lehman Brothers published his report The Business of Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities and its sequel The Business of Climate Change II; also in 2007, Lehman Brothers published India: everything to play for. In 2008 Nomura International published his report The Business of Ageing, and in 2010 his study The Ascent of Asia. Most recently, the Centre for Policy Studies has published his study Conditions for Growth: what governments can do to promote long-term growth.

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For further information, please see John's personal website at www.llewellyn.co.nz

Preston Llewellyn                                                       

     



Before forming Llewellyn Consulting:          


Preston undertook his undergraduate degree in Economics with French at the University of Sussex before completing his masters in France at the University of Grenoble. Building on his broad management experience he recently obtained an MBA (with merit) from
Imperial College, London.


Preston spent over ten years in the transportation industry, working as part of the senior management team of a leading designer and manufacturer of traffic information systems and related infrastructure for use on motorway and tunnel networks.

Preston specialised in commercial business development and strategy, and has a track record in the growth and management of successful long term business contracts and partnerships - within local and national government, and the private sector.

He joined the consultancy full time in mid 2009, with a primary focus on climate change.

Preston’s latest writing is Climate Change: Growing business opportunities, which was written in collaboration with Ivan Lee and Elaine Wu and published by Nomura in The Ascent of Asia (2010). Climate Change: Growing business opportunities presents an overview of the current scientific consensus, the basic economic consequences, and the current state of policy worldwide. It then details a number of the potential implications for business, including for each of the major economies of Asia.

Preston is a member of the Society of Business Economists (SBE).