As a leader of the Business Roundtable, he was one of the most influential figures in the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. The Roundtable's leadership was so effective that most New Zealanders came to believe business was always solidly behind the economic reforms. The Business Roundtable, consisting of chairmen and chief executives of the country's largest companies, was almost a secret society in those days, never engaging in political debate and hardly acknowledging its existence. All of that changed in 1984 when Labour came to power amid a currency crisis that made the need for economic reform vividly clear. By the time Myers came to the leadership, the popular stage of economic reform had passed.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 09, 2017 17:10 UTC