New Zealand Statistical Association 2024 Conference

Kate Kolich – Plenary Session 2

Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua

Data leadership within and beyond your organisation

Data is an integral part of all good decision making. Connecting statistics, data and insight with decision makers is important, but so is having a strong data culture throughout the whole organisation. Being enabled by data and insight is contingent on a data culture that has a defined data strategy aligned with organisation outcomes, ensuring data and insight is fully integrated in all decision making. There are a number of key ingredients for this, including many participants’ involvement. In this talk Kate Kolich will share her inclusive approach to data leadership in her role as Assistant Governor/General Manager of Information, Data, and Analytics at Te Pūtea Matua The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). This talk will provide a high level overview of how the RBNZ, as kaitiaki and custodian of New Zealand’s financial system data, produces data and insight to enable decision making. Kate will outline how having a data strategy which embraces the needs of data practitioners, consumers and decision makers leads to data innovation and data driven decision making.