Welcome to the team, Dr Sarah Kerkin.

We are delighted to extend a very warm welcome to Dr Sarah Kerkin who has joined Frank as one of our Principal Consultants.

Sarah is a systems thinker and creative problem solver, deeply experienced in regulatory and policy quality, constitutional policy, and organisational strategy.

She has 25 years’ experience in central government, including roles with the Ministries of Justice, Consumer Affairs and Health. Nine years served on the Legislation Design and Advisory Committee honed Sarah’s focus on policy and regulatory quality and her strong desire to collaborate with people to find pragmatic solutions that would meet multiple objectives.

Sarah’s strong belief that there had to be a better way of doing policy led to a doctorate focusing on applying systems thinking methods to constitutional policy problems, using the Canterbury earthquake recovery legislation as a case study.