State Services Commission appoints CE for Ministry of Science & Innovation

The State Services Commissioner, Iain Rennie, today announced the appointment of Murray Bain to the newly established position of Chief Executive, Ministry of Science and Innovation. The Ministry of Science and Innovation will be established formally on 1 November 2010.

Mr Bain is currently the Chief Executive of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (the Foundation). He was appointed in 2004.

“While in his current role Mr Bain has established effective relationships with stakeholders in the science and business communities and across government and he has ensured that the Foundation achieves results by working collaboratively with them.

“Mr Bain is an experienced chief executive. He has successfully led organisations through major periods of change. He has experience in providing strategic leadership for new organisations and creating high performing teams with the capability to ensure strategies are implemented,” Iain Rennie said.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Mr Bain was the Assistant Governor/Head of Operations, Reserve Bank of New Zealand responsible for the Bank’s internal support functions including finance, information technology, human resources, audit and the Currency Operations and Building Services Unit. Before that he was the General Manager of Industry and Regional Development in the establishment phase of Industry NZ before it became NZTE.

He has gained experience in leading large scale operational and service functions when he was the Chief Operating Officer in the Accident Compensation Corporation and in the roles of Senior General Manager, Banking, and General Manager-Finance in the Trust Bank Group.

Mr Bain has a Master of Commerce (Honours), Economics, and a Bachelor of Science, Pure Mathematics, from Canterbury University.

Mr Bain takes up his appointment on 1 November 2010.

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