Marilyn Waring is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Massey University in Auckland, and coordinator of the post-graduate programme in Public Policy. In 2003, she ended 15 years of farming angora goats and has recently been appointed to the board of directors of the Reserve Bank. In 2006, Dr Waring joined Auckland University of Technology as a Professor in the Institute of Public Policy.

In the years since she retired from Parliament in 1984 she has written Women, Politics and Power, Counting for Nothing, Three Masqerades and In the Lifetime of a Goat. As well as being translated into French, Norwegian, Japanese and Spanish, Counting for Nothing was the subject of the award-winning documentary Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics, made by the National Film Board of Canada. This is now the highest selling documentary ever made by this world-famous studio.

In the past years Marilyn Waring has held fellowships at Harvard and Rutgers universities in the USA, at Queens University in Canada, and at the Hawke Institute in Adelaide, Australia. She has worked as project leader with the FAO, UNDP and UNIFEM in Fiji, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and last year in Mexico.

She has served on the Council of Creative New Zealand. In 2003 she was a judge of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and in any year, she hopes to reduce her golf handicap.