Tim was a School Prefect, an academic prize winner and School Dux in 1965.

Tim Hazledine was a Professor of Economics in the University of Auckland Business School. His special interests include impacts of NZ's economic liberalisation policy alternatives for NZ, Trade and growth.

Professor Hazledine was educated at Otago and Canterbury before enrolling at Warwick in 1972 to study Industrial Organisation. He has taught at Otago, Warwick, Balliol College Oxford, Queen's University in Ontario and at the University of British Columbia where he was in the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1983 to 1992. Professor Hazledine also has experience in government and consulting.

Over the 1991-92 academic year he held the T. D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Bureau of Competition Policy, in Ottawa. His research agenda is focused on problems of competitiveness and unemployment in small trading economies and competition and competition policy, most recently in the context of passenger air travel markets. His specialist teaching interests are Industrial Organisation, Public Economics, and Economic Reform in developed and transition economies. Over the last years Tim has written a large number of thought-provoking newspaper articles. 

Tim is a man of profound (deep even) musical convictions and a comprehensive knowledge of music of all sorts. He is that very, very rare thing these days -- a (vaguely) left wing economist. And that even rarer thing -- an economist that is an extraordinarily gifted musician.

He started with the Band of Hope Jug Band Folk Music group performing in 1968, with members Gordon Collier, Christopher Gross, Bill Hammond, Warwick Brock, Dobbin (Robin Elliot), Dennis Hearfield, Phil Garland, Val Murphy, Timothy Hazledine. He played with a group called “Two Paddocks” in Auckland. He played piano with the group and covers a wide range of music including: jazz, rock, and boogie woogie.

Emeritus Professor Timothy has retired to Wanaka from where he still contributes his excellent newspaper articles.