Sir Roger Owen Douglas (born 5 December 1937), is a New Zealand politician who formerly served as a senior New Zealand Labour Party Cabinet minister. He became arguably best-known for his prominent role in the radical economic restructuring undertaken by the Fourth Labour Government during the 1980s ("Rogernomics"). In 1993, he founded the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (the forerunner of the ACT New Zealand Party) with Derek Quigley. He returned to Parliament as an ACT Party backbencher in 2008. Douglas was born on 5 December 1937. His family had strong ties with the trade-union movement, and actively engaged in politics. His maternal grandfather Bill Anderton, who was Labour Member of Parliament for Eden from 1935 to 1946 and for Auckland Central from 1946 to 1960, was a cabinet minister in the Second Labour Government.