New members for GIAB announced
24 July 2008
New members for GIAB announced
Twelve new members representing some of New Zealand’s leading businesses and research organisations have been appointed to the government’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board, Economic Development Minister Pete Hodgson announced today.
The board provides independent advice to the government.
Pete Hodgson said the new appointments, and the reappointment of eight existing members including re-appointed chair Stephen Tindall, are intended to increase the Board’s influence, so that it could take a more strategic, over-arching approach to economic growth and productivity issues.
“The board plays a valuable role in bringing together key decision makers and thinkers in government and business, and is already a very important source of advice to the government on growth and innovation issues. I believe that there is scope for increasing its influence – especially in enhancing the dialogue between business and government on key strategic issues facing the New Zealand economy,” said Pete Hodgson.
“Those reappointed, combined with the new members bring a wealth of experience and skills across a wide range of fields, as well as excellent national and international networks,” he said.
The new board meets for the first time on July 24.
A full list of the new and re- appointments and brief biographies is appended.
The new appointments to GIAB are:
Jo Brosnahan, chair Landcare Research
Andrew Ferrier, chief executive Fonterra Co-operative
Group
Prof Roger Field, chair NZ Vice Chancellors’
Committee
Bryan Gould, chair Foundation for Research,
Science and Technology
Sam Knowles, chief executive
Kiwibank Limited
Dr Peter Lee, chief executive
officer Auckland UniServices Limited
Jonathan Ling,
chief executive Fletcher Building Limited
Prof Philip
McCann, Economics Professor Waikato University
Nick
Main, chair Deloitte and NZ Business Council for Sustainable
Development
Jon Mayson, chair New Zealand Trade and
Enterprise
Sue Suckling, chair National Institute of
Water and Atmospheric Research Limited
Mark Tume,
professional director.
Those reappointed to GIAB for another three years are:
Stephen Tindall (GIAB Chair),
founder The Warehouse Limited and Tindall Foundation
Rick Christie, professional director
Dr Brian Easton,
economist
Helen Kelly, president New Zealand Council
of Trade Unions
Jeremy Moon, chief executive
Icebreaker NZ Limited
Phil O’Reilly, chief
executive Business New Zealand
Sam Robinson, chair
AgResearch Limited
David Shand, chair Tertiary
Education Commission.
GROWTH AND INNOVATION ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER PROFILES
Stephen Tindall, Chair
Stephen
Tindall is the founder of The Warehouse and the Tindall
Foundation. He founded The Warehouse in 1982 and grew the
company into a billion dollar business before stepping down
as Managing Director in 2001.
He now focuses on the
Tindall Foundation and environmental and sustainability type
projects. The Foundation invests in identifying and funding
a number of diverse initiatives in business, education and
sport, designed to stimulate innovation and excellence in
New Zealand society. The Foundation has been involved in
providing venture capital to youth leadership in the
community and enterprise.
Mr Tindall’s private venture
capital company K1W1 has invested in over 100 young start up
businesses and entrepreneurs who are aiming at providing
export revenues for New Zealand from innovation and growth
technologies.
Mr Tindall is Chair of the Climate Change
Leadership Forum, the Broadband Investment Forum and is a
Co-Founder and former Chair of the New Zealand Business
Council for Sustainable Development. He is a founding
member of The New Zealand Institute, Co-Founder and
Director, Kiwi Expats Abroad (KEA) and a Council Member of
the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development.
He is a Distinguished Companion of the New
Zealand Order of Merit awarded in 2007.
Jo Brosnahan
Jo
Brosnahan is a professional director and a consultant in
leadership and strategy. She has had a career focused
around the transport and infrastructure sectors,
environmental sustainability and resource management. Ms
Brosnahan is Chair of Landcare Research Limited, Chair of
Leadership NZ and a Director of Housing New Zealand,
Hobsonville Land Co and of the Testing Laboratory
Registration Council.
A Harkness Fellow, Ms Brosnahan was
a chief executive in local government for 14 years,
initially with the Northland Regional Council and then with
the Auckland Regional Council.
Rick Christie
Rick
Christie was the founding Chair of the Growth and Innovation
Advisory Board and he is the former Chair of AgResearch and
the Science and Innovation Advisory Council. Mr Christie is
a professional director and company chairman with
appointments in both the private and public sectors.
Mr
Christie spent 21 years in the oil industry in New Zealand
and overseas. After nearly nine years in the export sector,
including six years as Chief Executive of Tradenz, he joined
diversified investment company Rangatira Ltd as Chief
Executive. He retired from Rangatira Ltd in 2003 to become a
fulltime independent Director.
Dr Brian
Easton
Brian Easton is a researcher, writer, consultant
and tertiary teacher. He was a director of the New Zealand
Institute of Economic Research between 1981 and 1986 and has
published extensively on the New Zealand economy and public
policy. He is currently economics columnist for the New
Zealand Listener and holds the 2007 J.D. Stout Fellowship,
at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of
Wellington, to write an economic history of New
Zealand.
Dr Easton has been a member of various
government statistics, economics and policy committees. In
2004 he was a Fulbright New Zealand Distinguished Scholar,
which enabled him to study globalisation at the Centre for
Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown University,
and at Harvard University. In 2005 he was made a
Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of
Economists. In 2007 he published ‘Globalisation and the
Wealth of Nations’.
Andrew Ferrier
Andrew Ferrier is
Chief Executive of Fonterra Co-operative Group.
During
his career he has dealt continuously with free trade
environments and heavily regulated environments having spent
sixteen years in the sugar industry in Canada, the United
States, the United Kingdom and Mexico. He headed GSW Inc in
Toronto, Canada, a publicly traded Canadian company selling
branded consumer building and water products.
Mr Ferrier
is founding Chair of Global Dairy Platform, an international
organisation whose mission is to provide insight and
guidance in the promotion of healthy consumption of dairy
products.
Prof Roger Field
Prof Roger Field is Chair of
the Vice Chancellors’ Committee and Vice Chancellor of
Lincoln University, Canterbury. He is involved with a large
number of external organisations and bodies that support
university education and research, including the development
of policy. This includes governance roles with education,
research and technology companies.
Prof Field has made
major contributions to international education development,
particularly in Asia and Europe and been involved in basic
and applied research.
Bryan Gould
Bryan Gould is Chair,
Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. He has a
record of significant governance experience, strong and
relevant connections to the research sector and an excellent
understanding of government processes.
Mr Gould was a
New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who served as a member of the UK
parliament for sixteen years before returning to New Zealand
to become Vice Chancellor of Waikato University, a post
which he held for 10 years until his retirement in 2004.
Under his leadership, the University of Waikato undertook
several significant initiatives, including the construction
of the WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts, the
establishment of the School of Maori and Pacific
Development, and the creation of the Waikato Innovation
Park. He is currently a director of Television NZ and Chair
of the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
Helen Kelly
Helen Kelly was elected President of the
NZ Council of Trade Union at the biennial conference in
2007. She had been CTU Vice President since September 2003.
She has a long history in the union movement, primarily in
the education sector, as an organiser for the Association of
University Staff and has held several positions including
Assistant Secretary in the New Zealand Educational
Institute.
Ms Kelly co-chairs the Workplace Health and
Safety Council and is responsible for CTU international work
through the International Trade Union Congress and the
International Labour Organisation.
Sam Knowles
Sam
Knowles has held the position of Chief Executive, Kiwibank
Limited, since its inception in 2001 and has considerable
experience in the banking industry.
Mr Knowles has been a
senior manager for trading banks in New Zealand and
Australia, specialising in areas including strategic
planning, retail services, marketing and business
development. He is an executive member of New Zealand Post
Limited and holds a number of private sector board
appointments.
Dr Peter Lee
Dr Peter Lee is Chief
Executive Officer, Auckland UniServices Limited. Prior to
joining UniServices, the research and commercialisation
company wholly owned by The University of Auckland, he spent
most of his career in the United States.
Between 1988
and 2003 Dr Lee held executive positions with the $US30
billion International Paper Company, including Global
Director of New Product and Process Development and, from
1995, Vice President, Corporate Research and Product
Development. Dr Lee returned to New Zealand in 2003.
Jonathan Ling
Jonathan Ling is Chief Executive and
Managing Director of Fletcher Building Limited, New
Zealand’s leading building materials company with
operations in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, North America
and Europe.
Prior to joining Fletcher Building in July
2003, Mr Ling was Executive General Manager of the Nylex
Division, Austrim Nylex Ltd. He was Chief Executive Officer
of Visy Recycling for four years and prior to that Manager
Corporate Development with Pacifica Ltd where he led
Pacifica's extensive business build up in Asia.
Prof Philip McCann
Prof Philip McCann is
Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics,
Waikato Management School at The University of Waikato. He
is a well respected, world renowned, economic geographer.
Educated at Cambridge University his research interests are
in urban and regional economics, economic geography,
transport economics, and international business
economics.
Prof McCann has previously held positions at
the University of Reading, UK, University of Pennsylvania,
USA, University of Cambridge, UK as well as Visiting
Professorships at the University of Tsukuba, Japan and
Thammasat University, Thailand.
Nick Main
Nick Main is
Chair of Deloitte in New Zealand. He is an audit partner
who specialises in financial audit. He leads the Climate
Change and Sustainability group for Deloitte in New Zealand
and is a member of the Deloitte Global Corporate
Responsibility Council. He is a member of the
Government’s Climate Change Leadership Forum.
Mr Main
is Chair of the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable
Development, Deputy Chair of the Excelerator (New Zealand
Leadership Institute) and a Board Member of the New Zealand
Institute, the Committee for Auckland and the NZUS
Council.
Jon Mayson
Jon Mayson is Chair, New Zealand
Trade and Enterprise. He has extensive experience in
exporting, international supply chains and management and is
a full time company chairman/director with a variety of New
Zealand companies.
Mr Mayson was Chief Executive of the
Port of Tauranga from 1997 to 2005, during which time the
Port grew to be the largest export port and established its
Metro Port operation in Auckland. During his years in
operational management Mr Mayson undertook consultancy work
for the Asian Development Bank and private consultants
involving port privatisation and development in South East
Asia.
Jeremy Moon
Jeremy Moon is Chief Executive of
merino outdoor clothing company Icebreaker, a brand launched
in 1995 and now New Zealand's largest adventure-wear
exporter. Icebreaker clothing is now sold in 2000 stores in
30 countries and has been listed on the Deloitte New Zealand
"Fast 50" for two years. Icebreaker also won the 2003 Design
in Business award.
Mr Moon is also the Chair of the
Better by Design Advisory Board and a member of the Business
Advisory Board for the Otago University School of Business.
He is a member of the New Zealand order of merit,
awarded in 2008.
Phil O'Reilly
Phil O'Reilly is Chief
Executive of Business NZ, New Zealand's largest business
advocacy organisation. He has a background in business,
advocacy and communications in enterprises in New Zealand
and Australia.
During the 1980s he was Industrial
Advocate, Auckland Employers Association Inc and in 1990 he
became Executive Director of the Newspaper Publishers
Association of New Zealand. In 2000 he was appointed Head of
Employment Policy and Communication at Westpac Bank in
Sydney before returning to New Zealand to his role at
Business NZ.
Sam Robinson
Sam Robinson has extensive
experience in the farming industry and strong links with the
food and beverage sector. He is a sheep and beef farmer in
the Hawkes Bay and was a former Chair of Richmond Ltd.
Mr Robinson is Chair, AgResearch and a member of the
Meat Industry Taskforce, a director of AsureQuality and a
former member of the Food and Beverage Taskforce.
In the
private sector he is a director on the board of the Port of
Napier, Farmlands Trading Society Ltd the Public Service
Investment Society and Centralines Ltd.
David
Shand
David Shand has extensive international finance
experience, working for both the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund, and he has worked with the OECD
on public sector reform issues. He has held a number of
senior positions in state and federal government in
Australia. In the 1970s, he spent six years in local
politics as a Wellington City Councillor.
Mr Shand is
Chair of the Tertiary Education Commission and in 2007
chaired the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Local
Government Rates established by the Minister of Local
Government. He is also a director of Meridian Energy Ltd.
In October 2007 he was one of three commissioners
appointed to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland
Governance.
Sue Suckling
Sue Suckling has extensive experience as a governance practitioner. She is, and has been, a director of a large number of private companies and public entities.
Ms Suckling is Chair and Director of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Chair of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and is a member of the Takeovers Panel and the Climate Change Leaders Forum. She was a former Chair of state-owned enterprise AgriQuality Limited and was Deputy Chair of GNS Science.
Ms Suckling was awarded the OBE in 1996 for her contribution to NZ business.
Mark Tume
Mark Tume has had a career in the finance sector and has held senior roles in areas such as investment banking, capital markets, asset and liability management, and risk control.
Mr Tume holds a number of directorships, including Transpower New Zealand Ltd, Ngai Tahu Holdings Corporation, the New Zealand Refining Company Limited, and Infratil Limited. He is a member of the Board of the Guardians of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and was a former President of the New Zealand Financial Markets Association.
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