Susan Hansen

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Susan has worked in financial services since 1980. She is a Chartered Accountant (Australia and South Africa) and has an MBA from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

She worked for Ernst & Young for eight years in Cape Town and London, and prior to that five years with Salomon Brothers, the Wall Street Investment Bank now part of Citigroup.

Before establishing a financial training consultancy Susan was Chief Executive of Viaduct Harbour Holdings Limited, Auckland’s waterfront development. She regularly presents seminars for organizations throughout Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia that largely target managers from a non-financial background to help them understand the numbers and the financial tools that are available to assist decision making. 

She is a co-developer and facilitator for the Professional exams for the Institute of Chartered Accountants New Zealand (ICANZ). She lectures Finance on the Masters of Engineering Management Program at Canterbury University, New Zealand; Masters of Project Management at University Technology Sydney, Australia; and facilitates short courses on Finance for the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Susan is a non-executive Director of Utilico Investment Trust, listed in Bermuda. She is also the author of serveral books, including  "Simply Finance”, Bateman 2010.

In New Zealand, Susan regularly works with the following organizations: Bell Gully, Fletcher Building, New Zealand Treasury, Spotless, Transpower, and Vector, as well as UBS Bank.