Max Rashbrooke is a Wellington-based writer and public intellectual. His books, led by the best-selling 'Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis' (new edition 2018), have helped transform national understanding of income and wealth disparities. Rashbrooke's journalism has appeared in major outlets worldwide, including The Guardian, the Economist Group and the New Zealand Herald. He was the 2020 J.D. Stout Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, and is a research associate of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies. His TED.com talk on renewing democracy has had over 1 million views.