Photo: Getty ImagesNew Zealand businessman Chris Liddell is tipped to become President Donald Trump's top economic adviser after Gary Cohn's exit from the White House. The director of the National Economic Council had been the leading internal opponent to Trump's planned tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. At the start of this year he was named Trump's White House director of strategic initiatives - a job placing the New Zealander at the head of a group dubbed "the White House think tank". Liddell had joined Trump's administration in early 2017 and had worked closely with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor, since his appointment. "But the President works through these huge numbers of other people running various departments and so forth, so who he starts to surround himself, how he manages those people, will define his success."

Source: Otago Daily Times March 10, 2018 21:45 UTC