Kevin Jenkins is a contributor for the New Zealand Herald

I’m a Founder of advisory firm MartinJenkins and a director or trustee for several other organisations. What fascinates me most is the zone where business, innovation, and regulation overlap. New technologies are always opening up unexpected doors for business and posing challenges for the regulators trying to catch up. I like to dig into new trends and technologies with the help of specialist colleagues and commentators, and then translate what I’ve learned in an accessible way for other laypeople like me. One of my failings is that I can get completely obsessed when I’m learning about something new, like subscription models or synthetic data – the challenge, and one I enjoy grappling with - is to stay focussed on its implications for business, government, and ordinary citizens. I love music (from Sun Ra to amapiano to Vera Ellen) and books (from old Russians to modern business commentators), sport (especially grassroots rugby), and New Zealand artisan cheese. I chair the Real Estate Institute of NZ and Iti Kopara Public Governance Aotearoa, am a Trustee of the Parliamentary Education Trust and a director of The Cheese Wheel, and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors