Pike

Pike Stahlmann-Brown is a Research Affiliate at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, the leading non-profit think tank in New Zealand. He is an expert in innovative survey design enumeration and inferential analysis using econometric methods. Topics of interest include economic behaviour and environment.

Pike established and led the New Zealand Colony Loss Survey from 2015 through 2025. He has published extensively on topics of interest to beekeepers, including on varroa as a driver of colony losses, the economic implications of colony losses, miticide resistance, beekeeper wellbeing, and practical guidance on varroa management for hobbyist beekeepers.