About
Welcome to Honey Consulting. We offer international trade policy advice to a range of clients.
Based in New Zealand, Managing Director Stephanie Honey is a former trade negotiator and diplomat with over two decades’ experience in international trade negotiations and domestic trade-related economic issues. Stephanie has worked with governments, international institutions such as the OECD and Asian Development Bank, and private sector clients. Her work has spanned trade issues in the Asia-Pacific (including China, South-East Asia, Australia and the Americas) and Europe. Her main areas of interest include digital and services trade; the WTO and regional economic integration; regional and bilateral trade agreements; agriculture and food trade; non-tariff barriers and trade inclusion for women and small businesses.
In addition to her general consulting work, Stephanie serves as the policy advisor (Lead Staffer) to the New Zealand members of the APEC Business Advisory Council and is the co-founder of a business that offers executive education in trade policy, Global Trade Insights. She sits on the Board of the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority, on the Advisory Board of the Centres for Asia-Pacific Excellence, and formerly served on the Executive Board of the TradeExperettes, a social enterprise that champions women trade experts globally. She is sought-after internationally as a commentator, speaker and writer on trade policy issues.
SELECTED Recent publications
‘How the CPTPP can rewrite the rules of 21st-century trade’, Hinrich Foundation, Singapore, February 2024
‘Digital Regional Economic Integration: New Trade Agreements and Opportunities’, Chapter 9 in Asia-Pacific Small States - Political Economies of Resilience, edited by Stephen Noakes and Alexander C. Tan, Lynne Rienner Publishers, July 2023
‘Digital Trade Governance: Competing Imperatives in the Indo-Pacific’, in The Systematic Impact of the Twin Digital and Green Tech Revolutions in the Indo-Pacific: Toward a New Industrial Policy Race, June 2023, ed. Yves Tiberghien, University of British Columbia
‘Costs, benefits and effectiveness of remote audits for international food safety’, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, No. 196 - report co-authored with Annelies Deuss, OECD, June 2023
‘The long road to a seamless global digital economy’, article for the Hinrich Foundation, 30 May 2023
‘Resuming Normal Service? Assessing future prospects for New Zealand-China services trade’, Report for the New Zealand China Council, November 2022
‘Digital Identity in ABAC: Deepening Trust, Inclusion and Interoperability in the Digital Economy’, Report for the APEC Business Advisory Council, September 2022
‘Preparing for the Digital Economy’, Chapter 4 of Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific: Leveraging Trade and Digital Agreements for Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank, July 2022
‘Quick Win No. 1’ in Ten Quick Wins for Digital Trade, TradeExperettes, September 2022
‘Shifting the dial on women and trade’, blog for TradeExperettes, March 2022
‘APEC 2021: Unlocking digital trade in the Asia-Pacific’, New Zealand Herald, 4 November 2021
‘Quick Win No. 9’, in Ten Quick Wins for More Equitable Trade, TradeExperettes, October 2021
‘What’s the Future of NZ-US Digital Trade?’, panel discussion for NZ-UK Council, September 2021
‘Enabling Trust, Trade Flows and Innovation: The DEPA at Work’, Hinrich Foundation, July 2021
‘Digital Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region with Stephanie Honey’, Global Economy Podcast, Episode 57, European Centre for International Political Economy, June 2021
‘How can trade policy support gender equality?’, webinar for UNESCAP/ARTNeT, May 2021
Asia-Pacific Digital Trade Policy Innovation’, Chapter 8 in Addressing Impediments to Digital Trade, edited by Ingo Borchert and L. Alan Winters, April 2021, CEPR Press
‘Agriculture Trade Reform and Sustainable and Inclusive Food Security’, in VUW Policy Quarterly: New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 16 No. 4, November 2020
‘Will CPTPP offer tangible improvements for women?’, in Reshaping Trade through Women’s Economic Empowerment, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2019