Joey Shannon

Joey specialises in financial, economic, and commercial analysis for public-policy and investment decision making. Equally comfortable in the quantitative and qualitative worlds, Joey supports clients with clear, credible advice.

Joey helps clients refine and better understand their own thinking, including in support of business-case processes. He has supported clients in central and local government, as well as iwi-affiliated trusts and private infrastructure providers.

Before he joined us, Joey was a Director in KPMG’s Deal Advisory practice, focussing on economic and commercial advice in housing, infrastructure, and urban development. He has also held several public-sector roles.

Examples of Joey's work

• Leading the review of KiwiSaver Default Providers for MBIE, including heading a cross-agency team to design and implement a commercial procurement process involving hundreds of thousands of investors and several billion dollars of funds under management
• Developing a business case for a local council to establish a new affordable-housing entity to take over managing the council’s housing portfolio and begin to deliver growth
• Reviewing a draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport for the Ministry of Transport – this focussed on assessing the proposed funding levels for the various activity classes
• Managing the Budget process for Toitū Te Whenua | Land Information NZ.