Co-FounderHuman Rights Measurement Initiative
Anne-Marie Brook is an economist and social entrepreneur with a passion for helping to bring about systemic change. She is one of the co-founders of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), and currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Her sense of social justice was sparked as a child, observing ethnic disparities at her primary school. She left New Zealand for the first time when she was 16 to spend a year living with a local family and attending high school in Arequipa, Peru, as an AFS exchange student. That experience was formative, sparking a life-long interest in learning what drives some countries to do so much better than others at creating the conditions that allow their people to truly flourish.
Anne-Marie has degrees in Psychology and Economics from the University of Otago and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, which she attended on a Fulbright Scholarship. Prior to making the jump into human rights, Anne-Marie worked as a senior economist for the OECD in Paris, and in the New Zealand public sector. She has lived in six countries, travelled extensively, and speaks rusty Spanish and French. In 2016 she co-founded the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. She and her global team of human rights experts believe wholeheartedly that what gets measured gets improved, and their vision is a world where everyone can see what’s going on through a human rights lens.
As an Edmund Hillary Fellow, Anne-Marie is part of a network of global change-makers building solutions for positive impact from Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020 she was a finalist in New Zealand's Woman of Influence awards, in the Global category.