New Year's Honours 2022

Janet Marie (Marie) Shroff 

To be a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the State and the community.

Ms Marie Shroff was New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner from 2003 until 2014, during a period of great technological and social change.

Ms Shroff’s responsibilities as regulator included providing independent public commentary on information privacy issues, responding to major government and private sector privacy breaches, and promoting good personal information handling. She played a key role in bringing international privacy regulators to the table to address developing challenges. She led negotiations for New Zealand privacy law to gain equivalence with European law. She was instrumental in launching Privacy Foundation New Zealand and was inaugural Chair in 2017. She has been on the Media Council and a Board member of Consumer New Zealand since 2014. She was a Board member of the Equal Opportunities Trust and has represented New Zealand on the Board of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management. She has been the Chair of the New Zealand Electoral Commission Board since 2019, helping guide the organisation through the 2020 election during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was the Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council from 1987 to 2003, where she was highly regarded for guiding the constitutional transition to mixed member proportional representation and coalition government. Ms Shroff is a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Auckland.

Dr Alison Patricia Barrett

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to women's health.

Dr Alison Barrett has been contributing to women’s health as a gynaecologist, obstetrician, lactation consultant, sexual health specialist and maternal health advocate for more than 25 years.

Dr Barrett was the Chief of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists at Stevenson Memorial Hospital, Ontario, and Clinical Director of Obstetrics at Waikato DHB. She received the F M Hill Award for Humanitarianism while in Canada, recognising her dedication to compassionate care in patient management. She is dedicated to women’s health and community activism and presents internationally and nationally on topics such as women’s rights in childbirth, why breastfeeding matters to maternal, infant and planetary health, and improving health care systems by preventing iatrogenic harms. She has served on an HIV Multidisciplinary working group, the New Zealand National Breastfeeding Committee, as a La Leche League Leader and as a member of the La Leche League New Zealand Board, the Homebirth Association Trust and Wahine Connect, a women’s mentorship group. Dr Barrett has written in academic and lay publications with a health justice lens and has taught students of all levels in Canada and New Zealand.

Dr Angela Denise Sharples

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.

Dr Angela Sharples has been contributing to education in the Eastern Bay of Plenty region by addressing issues of disparity and equitable access to quality education.

Dr Sharples has been the Principal of Murupara Area School since 2015, ensuring students in rural, remote schools that are facing issues of poverty and deprivation, have access to quality education. She has encouraged staff to individualise learning programmes for students and has engaged with the Youth Employability programme and Massey University’s Pūhoro programme, as well as building relationships with Stray, Air New Zealand and Kohutapu lodge to achieve this. She partnered with the District Health Board to provide mobile dental vans in Murupara, after discovering many teenagers were absent from school because of dental infections and the nearest adolescent dental service was in Rotorua. The mobile dental van now provides services to low-income earners in the area as well as students. She helped establish Te Aka Toitū Trust to address the digital divide in the Eastern Bay of Plenty area, connecting households in Murupara and surrounding areas to the school’s Network for Learning to ensure digital connectivity. Dr Sharples has been Chairperson of the New Zealand Biology Olympiad programme since 2006, secretary for Rotorua Show Jumping since 2012, and of Bay of Plenty Show Hunter since 2013.

Margaret Ann (Ann) Hartley

To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for services to local government and the community.

Ms Ann Hartley has been involved with the Birkdale, Birkenhead and North Shore communities for more than 50 years.

Ms Hartley was coordinator of the Birkdale community house in the 1970s and played a significant role in the establishment of the creche at St Philip’s Church in Birkdale. She was first elected to Birkenhead City Council in 1980, becoming Mayor in 1986 and was elected Mayor of North Shore City upon its inception in 1989. As Mayor, she worked with other councils to secure funding for the establishment of the only Marae in the North Shore area, Awataha Marae. She was elected to Parliament for the Northcote electorate in 1999, was Deputy Speaker of the House from 2002 to 2005, and a list member and Assistant Speaker from 2005 until her retirement in 2008. From 2008 to 2012 she was a Trustee of the ASB Community Trust and served as Chair. She was Councillor for the North Shore Ward from 2010 to 2013. She has been influential in establishing and maintaining the North Shore’s rich array of parks and facilities including North Shore Events Centre, Kauri Point Centennial Park and the Bruce Mason Centre, and improved public beach access at Takapuna. Ms Hartley was elected to Kaipātiki Local Board of Auckland Council in 2016.

Dr Arapera Royal Tangaere

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and education.

Dr Arapera Royal Tangaere has been championing Māori education and early childhood education for more than 40 years.

Dr Royal Tangaere has been the voice of Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust since 1982. As a National Advisor and Manager with Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust for 26 years, she has enhanced learning for children, providing quality oversight of both the curriculum and teaching qualifications. With the Trust she has been instrumental in the growth of the Te Kōhanga Reo movement, the total immersion in Māori language and values for preschool children, from fewer than ten early childhood centres in 1982 to more than 463 across New Zealand and Australia today. She has helped the Trust work with the Ministry of Education, without compromising the kaupapa of Te Kōhanga Reo. She has been a key contributor to the Te Kōhanga Reo curriculum, with some South Pacific nations adopting the curriculum model and other international representatives visiting to learn more. As a Representative of the Trust, Dr Royal Tangaere has been appointed to various government early childhood education working groups to encourage all families to utilise Te Kōhanga Reo.

 Campbell Roy Smith

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the music industry.

Mr Campbell Smith founded CRS Music Management in 1995 and has been a long-term contributor to the New Zealand music industry.

Mr Smith’s advocacy for musicians’ rights contributed to the creation of the Recording Artists and Producers Fund, which has seen millions of dollars paid to New Zealand artists as a direct share of broadcast royalties. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of RIANZ (Recording Industry Association of New Zealand). He played a significant role in the revamp of the New Zealand Music Awards, creating The Tuis. He produced the annual Big Day Out festival from 2004, which paved the way for other large-scale music events. In 2007 he launched the annual Winery Tour, which played more than 120 summer shows to more than 400,000 people at wineries throughout New Zealand. Since 2015 he has continued to develop and produce large-scale outdoor festivals and events, such as Auckland City Limits and the annual Western Springs Outer Fields concert series. In 2003 he co-founded the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust and was Chair until 2010. Mr Smith co-founded in 2011 and chaired MusicHelps until 2021. MusicHelps has to date raised and distributed more than $1 million to entities that use music to improve the lives of New Zealanders in need, or the provision of emergency support to members of the music community.

Celia Mary Patrick

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to tennis.

Ms Celia Patrick has contributed to tennis in New Zealand and internationally for 40 years.

Ms Patrick was a Senior Regional Representative in Hawkes Bay from 1981 to 1983 and held various positions with numerous tennis clubs until 2005. Following the restructure implemented by Tennis New Zealand (TNZ) she was inaugural Chair of the Tennis Northern Region, leading the transformation in a collaborative manner and building trust with stakeholders. She was elected to the TNZ Board in 2010, becoming Chair and President from 2013, focusing on strengthening relationships between TNZ and other national tennis organisations, in particular the relationship with Tennis Auckland. An agreement reached in 2015 enabled Tennis Auckland to host both men’s ATP and women’s WTA events at the ASB Classic Tournament. She helped lead TNZ to invest in digital platforms to grow tennis and expand high-performance activities of the organisation and signed a partnership with Aotearoa Māori Tennis Association in 2019. In 2015 she became the first New Zealander to be elected to the Board of the International Tennis Federation, holding various committee positions including Chair of the International Rules of Tennis Committee. Ms Patrick was elected to the Oceania Tennis Federation Board in 2015 and is an honorary member of the International Tennis Club of New Zealand.

Dr Christopher David (Chris) Moyes

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to health.

Dr Chris Moyes has been treating those with hepatitis B and C virus for 40 years, in addition to his work as a paediatrician.

Dr Moyes was a leading member of the Whakatane Hepatitis Research Unit (now Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand) in the 1980s. He played a key role in researching prevention and treatment of hepatitis B (HBV), as Māori and European children in parts of New Zealand had high rates of infection. As a result, Ministry of Health introduced an HBV immunisation programme for children in 1988. He was a Member of the South Pacific Advisory Group in the 1990s, who were established to seek HBV vaccine information, conduct epidemiological studies and monitor people with the virus. As HBV was prevalent in a significant number of children through ‘playground transmission’, alongside his colleagues he convinced the government to roll out a fully funded HBV vaccination for all infants. He has been working with local Kaumātua in Eastern Bay of Plenty to improve access to testing, monitoring and treatment in Māori living with HBV. Dr Moyes has been Medical Director of Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand for many years, supporting 30,000 patients.

David Dennis (Dave) Hinman

Awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to tramways and heritage.

Mr Dave Hinman retired in 2019 following 50 years with Christchurch City Council.

Mr Hinman was instrumental in the planning and construction of the City Tourist Tramway in Christchurch, acting as Project Manager from 1993 to 1994. The tramway has almost doubled the original 1995 route length from his efforts in engaging with Christchurch City Council, Heritage Tramways Trust and Christchurch Tramway Limited. He recently retired as Secretary of Tramway Historical Society (THS), having held positions on the Management Committee since 1966, and been President from 1972 to 1979. He was THS delegate on the Council of Tramway Museums of Australasia, an Executive member from 1986 and was Chairman until recently. He was Canterbury Branch Chairman of New Zealand Historic Places Trust from 1994 to 2002. He was instrumental in working with Christchurch Council and Christchurch Tramway Limited to reopen the tracks in 2013, following their destruction due to the 2011 earthquake. He was employed to be part of the Christchurch Council’s Heritage Response Team, which focused on retaining Heritage and Character buildings in the central city. He is former Trustee of the Ferrymead Trust, having played a key role in the planning and development of the Ferrymead museum complex. Mr Hinman is a past President of the New Zealand Planning Institute and a current Fellow.

Professor Evan Paul (Paul) Moon 

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education and historical research.

Professor Paul Moon is an historian who specialises in nineteenth-century New Zealand history, and philosophies of colonisation.

Professor Moon has been a lecturer and Professor of History in the faculty of Māori Development at the Auckland University of Technology since 1993, and was awarded a Doctor of Literature degree in 2021. He is widely published, including in international peer-reviewed journals. His 35 published books include biographies of Governors Hobson and Fitzroy, Hone Heke and James Busby. His 'The Newest Country in the World: A History of New Zealand in the Decade of the Treaty' (2007) was widely acclaimed, as was his 2013 book ‘Encounters: The Creation of New Zealand’. His latest work, ‘Colonising New Zealand’ was published in New York in 2021. He has appeared as a frequent commentator on Treaty-related issues and other historical topics, and has worked on several Treaty claims and with numerous government agencies. He is a referee for several academic journals including the New Zealand Journal of History. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College, London. Within his local community, Professor Moon is an active member of the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand, and a member of Mt Albert Grammar School Board of Trustees.

Frian Percy Wadia

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to disability and education.

Ms Frian Wadia has championed systemic change and policy improvement in inclusive education and equity through her governance roles.

Ms Wadia has governance experience through several committees and boards and is passionate about leading systemic change to ensure meaningful, dignified lives for all individuals with disabilities. She was the Secretary of Auckland Parents of Deaf Children (APODC) for several years, providing supports, networks and advocacy for deaf children and their families.

She has been a member of the Chaucer School Board of Trustees since 2016, ensuring policies are inclusive, equitable and representative of staff and children, and fundraised through grants for the build of a new playground. She has been a Coordinator of Very Important Parents – Equity in Education since 2016, engaging with the Ministry of Education, the Disability Rights Commissioner, Members of Parliament and other agencies to improve education for disabled children. She is a Board Member of the Teaching Council, establishing and chairing the Inclusive Education Advisory Group to the Board, consisting of experts in inclusive education influencing the Teaching Council functions and responsibilities. Ms Wadia is a Board member of Parent to Parent, a nationwide not-for-profit organisation supporting families of children with any type of disability or health conditions, and Presiding Member of the Lottery Individuals with Disability distribution committee.

Dr Geoffrey Bevan (Geoff) Lorigan

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and leadership development.

Dr Geoff Lorigan is founder and director of the Institute for Strategic Leadership, a world-class provider of leadership development programmes.

In 1979 Dr Lorigan began his CEO career by transforming Canterbury Dairy Farmers, a commodity milk company, into South Island Dairy Farmers, a nationwide provider of consumer foods and beverages. In the United Kingdom he led Associated New Zealand Farmers Ltd. to become the largest and most profitable New Zealand importer group, increasing its market share of the New Zealand Lamb market from 13 percent to 55 percent. He chaired the New Zealand Lamb Promotional Council, enhancing the reputation of New Zealand’s primary exports in the UK in the 1980s. He returned to New Zealand to begin a career enabling other leaders to succeed across the public, private, and not for profit sectors. He was Professor of Strategy and directed the MBA and Executive Programmes at University of Otago from 1996. In 2001 he was appointed Professor of Strategy, Director of MBA and Executive Programmes, and Associate Dean for the development of the Business School at the University of Auckland. He subsequently founded the Institute for Strategic Leadership in 2001. The Strategic Leadership Programme now numbers many international company leaders amongst its 2,200 alumni. In 2008 Dr Lorigan developed Smart Leader Diagnostics, which provides evidenced-based team leadership tools for monitoring organisational performance.

Dr Graeme Holt Fenton 

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and rural health

Dr Graeme Fenton has been a General Practitioner for 54 years, making notable contributions to Māori and rural health.

Dr Fenton established Moerewa Medical Services in 1967, serving an area with high health needs and a population of 85 percent Māori. He contributed to the planning of the establishment of Ngāti Hine Health Trust and has been associated with the Trust since. He was a director of the Northern Regional Health Authority. In 1997 he set up the first publicly funded rural locum and education service for general practitioners and practice nurses in New Zealand and was a director for 17 years. As Rural Director North Island from 2000 to 2001, he worked in rural communities and was involved in the Rural Implementation of the Primary Healthcare Strategy. He served on the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network Board from 2004 to 2008. He was involved in the development of the mid-north after hours service in 2008, which consolidated ten GP practices on-call, serving 40,000 people. He managed the service from 2009 to 2019. Dr Fenton served on the Te Tai Tokerau Primary Health Organisation (now Mahitahi Hauroa Primary Healthcare) Board from 2005 to 2012.

Gwendoline Smith

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mental health.

Ms Gwendoline Smith has been advocating for mental health in New Zealand through the publication of several award-winning books since the 1980s.

Ms Smith worked with health providers as a clinical psychologist and consultant since 1981, before becoming a social commentator on radio and television of mental health issues. She published her first book Will the Real Mr. New Zealand Please Stand Up in 1990, which focussed on male psychology and the rising suicide and mental health issues in men. She published Sharing the Load – What to do When Someone you Love is Depressed in 1996 and worked with Auckland Health Board and Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising to de-stigmatise mental health, raising $13.65 million for a campaign which is now known as Like Minds. Upon recovery from breast cancer in 2010, she wrote her following book Breast Support, a guide to assist women from diagnosis to post surgery and became an active campaigner for breast cancer research. She helped establish askdoctorknow.com, a mental health advice blog for young people worldwide which grew massively overnight, leading to an interview with the Guardian and the publishing of The Book of Knowing in 2017. Ms Smith published the bestselling books The Book of Overthinking in 2020 and The Book of Angst in 2021, with a combined 80,000 copies of her books sold worldwide.

Professor Jacinta Arianna Ruru

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and the law

Professor Jacinta Ruru is one of New Zealand’s leading Māori legal scholars and has been involved in celebrating mātauranga Māori for more than 20 years.

Professor Ruru has lectured at the University of Otago’s Faculty of Law since 1999. She has published widely on Indigenous peoples’ rights, interests and responsibilities to own and care for lands and waters. She is a strong advocate for recognising tikanga Māori in law and decolonising the tertiary sector including legal education. She has co-founded many initiatives including the University of Otago Māori Academic Staff Caucus, Te Poutama Māori, and the Māori teaching and learning research theme Poutama Ara Rau. She co-directed Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research from 2016 to 2021. She is Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Māori professor of law, and was one of the first Māori women to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. She holds Ministerial appointments to Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand Board and Kāhui Wai Māori, the Māori Freshwater Forum. Professor Ruru’s contributions have been recognised by the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Excellence in Teaching and an inaugural University of Otago Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair.

Janet Elinor (Jennie) Oakley

Awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to the community and the arts.

Mrs Jennie Oakley has been a member of the Cathedral Council of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell since 2008.

Mrs Oakley’s service has included being a Cathedral guide/welcome, lay worship leader at services, volunteering in the office, and regularly cooking meals for the Cathedral’s meal ministry for those in need. She was an Executive Committee member of the University of Auckland Alumni from 2007 to 2019 and was involved in hosting international students, helping them adjust to life in New Zealand, and the Vice Chancellor’s Student Support Fund, allowing students to represent the University overseas. She became known as ‘Granny Graduate’ in 2010, as the oldest capped graduate to walk down Queen Street, then aged 72. She completed her Masters while Secretary of the University’s Staff Common Room and working as a library assistant. She has been a volunteer guide at the Auckland Museum since 2018 and Pah Homestead Gallery since 2019. She is a member of the Committee of the Decorative Fine Arts Society (DFAS) Auckland branch, where she helps organise lectures throughout the year. She has been a committee member of the Friends of the Auckland Philharmonia since 2007. Mrs Oakley has volunteered for Meals on Wheels and provided transport for appointments when needed.

John David Rosser

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to choral music.

Mr John Rosser has been involved with choral music nationally and internationally as a singer, conductor, artistic director and governor since 1979.

Mr Rosser founded chamber choir Viva Voce in 1985 and remains its conductor. He was Associate Conductor and Chorus Director for New Zealand Opera and its predecessor between 1996 and 2018, preparing more than 60 operas and conducting five. He chaired the New Zealand Choral Federation (NZCF) for ten years between 2006 and 2020, as well as holding Vice Chair and Board member positions. Through NZCF he has contributed to numerous events and projects including as National Director and adjudicator of the annual Big Sing secondary schools’ choral festival, which now attracts more than 10,000 students nationwide. He devised and was Artistic Director of the Anthems Project at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, conducting at 13 games including the final. He organised the Tallis Project in 2013 in conjunction with renowned British ensemble The Tallis Scholars. He has contributed to NZCF’s reputation and strength, enabling them to prepare to host the World Symposium on Choral Music in 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Rosser was appointed to the Board of the International Federation for Choral Music in 2020.

Mr William John (John) Blakey

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.

Mr John Blakey has dedicated 30 years to the vocational education sector through industry training.

Mr Blakey was the Chief Executive Officer of FITEC, the forestry industry training organisation, between 1998 and 2006 where he led the development of the RADI Centre, New Zealand’s Centre of Excellence in Wood Manufacturing Training and Education. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Competenz between 2007 and 2015, an industry training organisation, leading the organisation through government led reforms of consolidation in the industry training sector, from 40 training organisations into 11. He was instrumental in the launch of the ‘Got a Trade? Got it Made’ campaign, a pan-industry training organisation campaign which is now known as ‘Vocation Nation’ led by the government. He is a former board member of the Tertiary Education Commission, holding the position between 2001 and 2008, where he led the industry training policy position on the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission. He is a former Head of School of the School of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, where he established the School, introduced degrees and post-graduate qualifications, and was heavily involved in international education. He was the Chair of Industry Training Federation in 2001 and was the Strategic Human Capability Director of Dairy New Zealand. Mr Blakey is the Director and Trustee of Competenz.

Namulau’ulu Taotua Leaoa Joshua James Potoa'e Robertson 

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Pacific community.

Namulau’ulu Taotua Leaoa Joshua Robertson has been a Pacific leader in the Taranaki region since 2003.

Mr Robertson has been a member of the Sinoti Samoa Methodist Church of New Zealand for more than 20 years, holding various positions including Convenor of Sinoti Samoa property advisory committee and member of the business committee. He is the President of the New Zealand Lay Preachers Association and under his leadership membership numbers have increased significantly, particularly of Pacific lay preachers. In 2009 he helped revive the Taranaki Vaimoana Pasifika Charitable Trust, which has evolved into a community trust supporting Pacific communities in sectors across justice, education, social, health, sports and Pacific language and culture. He helps organise the annual Taranaki Pasifika Day Festival. He was instrumental in organising successful Pacific contracts with Aere Tai Pacific Midland Collective to deliver Whānau Ora assistance for Pacific families. He has coordinated and helped distribute food and hygiene packs to Pasifika households and seasonal workers in the Taranaki region, working with local iwi, government agencies and non-government organisations. He co-created a Pasifika health programme for the community during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Mr Robertson was instrumental in an application to MBIE’s Regional Fund for the renovation of the New Plymouth Samoan Methodist Church and worked with the contractors to employ local Pacific workers.

Kolokesa Uafā (Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai) Tuai

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to cultures and the arts.

Mrs Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai works for Lagi-Maama Academy & Consultancy, an educational and cultural organisation she co-founded in 2018.

Mrs Māhina-Tuai’s knowledge of Tongan culture and background in art history, anthropology, museum and heritage studies has inspired her cultural and arts advocacy, curatorial practice and writings. She co-curated local and international exhibitions Tangata o le Moana: The Story of Pacific People in New Zealand in 2007 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Tatau: Symmetry, Harmony, and Beauty: The Art of Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine in 2010 at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK. Her exhibitions and writings highlight artistic knowledge and skills of Moana Oceania creatives as critical agents for maintaining and safeguarding their cultural heritage in diaspora such as Kolose: The Fine Arts of Tuvalu Crochet (2014). She values a cross cultural approach and the importance of looking critically at imposed western worldviews on Moana Oceania cultures and arts in the publication Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania (2019) and exhibition Ā Mua: New Lineages of Making (2020). Mrs Māhina-Tuai has been a guest curator and consultant for the Visible Voices Research Project at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Dr Linda Julia Morcombe Bryant 

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to pharmacy and health.

Dr Linda Bryant has informed significant changes in Hospital and Primary Care Pharmacy for more than 40 years, supporting pharmacists to enhance the health status of medicine-takers and raising awareness on the impact of drug related morbidity and mortality.

Dr Bryant was a founding member in 2003 and President from 2014 to 2017 of the Clinical Advisory Pharmacists Association, who support new emerging clinical advisory pharmacists to encourage a collaborative and positive approach in settings outside of traditional community pharmacies. She was a senior lecturer at University of Auckland from 2002 to 2013 and now holds honorary positions with the University of Auckland and University of Otago to provide clinical teaching to share her knowledge with postgraduate students. She is regarded as a valuable resource for the Goodfellow Unit providing education for GPs and general practice nurses, and regularly delivers clinical symposiums for pharmacists and other health providers. She has been a member of the Medicines Adverse Reactions Committee since 2006, which reviews and makes recommendations on medicines’ safety for New Zealanders. She received the Pharmaceutical Society’s Gold Medal in 2019 for significant services to the pharmacy profession. At the New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards in 2020, Dr Bryant was recognised with the award for Outstanding Contribution to Health.

Dr Lindsay Francis James Mildenhall

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to neonatal intensive care and resuscitation training.

Dr Lindsay Mildenhall is a Neonatologist and has been Clinical Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Service at Middlemore Hospital since 1998, with the Unit expanding in size from 22 to 48 cots during his tenure.

Dr Mildenhall has been a member of the New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) since 2000, a representative on the Australia New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR), and has spent 13 years on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). He has been a significant researcher and contributor to ILCOR, whose recommendations are adapted for use as resuscitation guidelines in Australasia and around the world. He has reviewed and assessed literature on resuscitation, written and prepared guidelines for newborn resuscitation, and organised national and international conferences. Dr Mildenhall played a leading role in developing the Newborn Life Support (NLS) system, the New Zealand programme for teaching newborn resuscitation skills to doctors, nurses and midwives.

Dr Michèle Margaret Hawke

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gymnastics.

Dr Michèle Hawke has been committed to gymnastics nationally and internationally for nearly 50 years.

Dr Hawke gained her Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) international brevet judging qualification for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) in 1980 and has judged at World Championships, Pacific Rim Championships, Junior Commonwealth Cup and Australian Youth Olympics. She was New Zealand WAG National Technical Committee Chairperson for the periods 1981 to 1984 and 1994 to 2001, and was reappointed in 2018. Between 2001 to 2008 and 2013 to 2018 she held the positions of Coaching Liaison and Judging Liaison on the committee. She has been an international Tour Team Official covering judging, coaching and team management for 18 Gymnastics New Zealand (GNZ) tours, including to Australia, Russia, Canada, and the United States. Since 1980 she has been a GNZ Coaching and Judging course presenter. In 1982 she established the New Zealand Junior Development Training Squad with squad members going on to represent New Zealand at the 1987 and 1989 World Championships and 1990 Commonwealth Games. She oversaw the review and upgrade of the WAG STEPs programme in 2016, which has resulted in increased participation and performance standards. Dr Hawke has been a Board member of the Christchurch School of Gymnastics for 20 years, undertaking judge education and mentoring for the club.

Moira Janet Clunie

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to LGBTQI+ communities.

Mx Moira Clunie has held leadership roles in rainbow, mental health and disability non-government organisation for 16 years, focusing on evidence-based programme design, systematic advocacy and collaborative practice.

Mx Clunie has been the Project Lead for Te Ngākau Kahukura, an organisation that is working towards an Aotearoa where rainbow people grow up feeling safe, valued and that they belong in the places they live, learn and access healthcare and social support. They Co-Chair OutLine, a rainbow support service which provides information and a sense of community, provides a free peer support phone line and a peer support service for transgender and non-binary people in Auckland. They are a member of the Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Policy and Advocacy Committee and Co-Chair Auckland and Waitematā District Health Boards suicide prevention strategy governance group. They were on the Auckland Council Rainbow Communities Advisory Panel for four years, helping raise the profile of LGBTQI+ communities and the rainbow support sector. Their work on the panel led to the introduction of all-gender bathrooms, collection of data on genders beyond the binary and including rainbow communities in several strategies such as youth homelessness. Mx Clunie has provided rainbow expertise on advisory groups for Statistics New Zealand, the Ministry of Health and Te Hiringa Hauora.

Neil Andrew Richardson 

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and philanthropy.

Mr Neil Richardson has contributed to business leadership and enterprise governance in New Zealand, particularly in the Waikato region over the past 30 years.

Mr Richardson was independent Chair of the Kiwifruit Industry Strategy Project (KISP) from 2013 to 2015, facilitating consensus on major industry reforms. He is a member of Te Puna Whakaaronui Thought Leaders Forum and on the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Advisors Board. He chaired AgResearch from 1994 to 1999, overseeing its transition into a standalone Crown entity. He chaired the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology from 1999 to 2004 and is a past Director of WEL Energy. He was Group Managing Director of the Gallagher Group from 1990 to 1996. He co-owned and chaired New Zealand Home Loans from 2003 to 2017 and negotiated its sale to Kiwibank. He is active philanthropically, has had a long involvement with the not-for-profit sector, and has been a long-term investor, director and mentor to entrepreneurs in the technology/start-up sector. He is Chair of Momentum Foundation Waikato, a Trustee of Te Awa River Ride Trust, and was Chair and funder of Child Matters until stepping down in 2017. Mr Richardson is an Adjunct Professor at Waikato Management School, is past Chair of its Advisory Board and Chair on the University of Waikato Fundraising Committee for building the Performing Arts Centre.

Nigel John Floyd Borell

To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori art.

Mr Nigel Borell is an artist, curator, researcher and Māori art advocate.

Mr Borell’s contribution to Māori arts development spans working on three meetinghouse projects under tohunga whakairo Pakariki Harrison from 1995 to 2000, through to his curatorial practice, curating numerous Māori art exhibitions. He was Associate Curator Māori Art at Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2013 and Curator Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery from 2015. In 2020 he curated Toi Tū Toi Ora, Auckland Art Gallery’s largest exhibition of Māori art and the most attended exhibition since 1989, with 191,000 visitors over its four-month run. He received the Art Foundation’s inaugural He Momo – A Moment In Time Award for this exhibition. Other curatorial projects include The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand, which toured to deYoung Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco in 2017, and contributing to the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane in 2018. He was involved with the First Nations Indigenous Curators Exchange Programme from 2015 to 2017 between New Zealand, Canada and Australia. He contributed to Becoming Our Future (2020), a publication engaging in the discourse of indigenous curatorial practice in these countries. He currently holds the role of Curator Taonga Māori with the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Phillip Ross (Phil) Ker 

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to tertiary education.

Mr Phil Ker was Chief Executive of Otago Polytechnic (OP) from 2004 to 2020, leading his staff to transform its performance, reputation and reach, achieve financial stability, and outstanding educational outcomes for its learners.

Under Mr Ker’s leadership, OP gained a high reputation for innovation through several initiatives including the EduBits micro-credentialing service, CapableNZ to help people gain NZQA credits for learning from work experience, New Zealand’s first brewing school, a heavy automotive programme in Dunedin, and an international campus in Auckland in partnership with Future Skills. In 2018 OP gained New Zealand’s first Baldrige-affiliated Performance Excellence Study Award, recognising OP as a world-class institution. He has contributed extensively to tertiary education nationally, including 18 years governance and curriculum leadership for
polytechnic business education, as President of the polytechnic teacher’s union, and founding Board Member and Deputy Chair of Ako Aotearoa, the national centre for tertiary teaching excellence. He chaired two of seven workstreams to establish Te Pukenga (New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology), represented New Zealand as a Board Member of the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics. He was a Director of Te Tapuae o Rehua, a partnership to grow Māori educational success. Mr Ker was a founding partner of Dunedin’s Economic Development Strategy.

Emeritus Professor Ralph Paul Cooney

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science and innovation.

Emeritus Professor Ralph Cooney has led development of significant innovative national research and development networks between researchers and companies in New Zealand to assist transforming the country’s economy.

He has been Professor at the University of Auckland since 1986 and has been Head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of Science. From 2001 to 2009, he was Pro Vice Chancellor of the University’s Tāmaki Innovation Campus where he developed successful campus-community initiatives, particularly with Māori and Pasifika and with New Zealand businesses. He holds several national and international fellowships, including with the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has led major government-funded research programmes over two decades. Between 1990 and 2005, he held several Crown appointments including representative on the Council of the University of the South Pacific, director on the Crown Research Institute ESR Ltd’s Board, and member of the International Science and Technology Advisory Committee. Since 2018, he has been contracted as an assessor for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund. He has chaired various innovation groups including Auckland Metro Innovation Group, Scion Research Ltd International Science Panel, and the Packaging Council of New Zealand Environmental Awards. In 2019 Professor Cooney received the Jean-Marie Lehn Award at an International Pure and Applied Chemistry Conference.

Richard Bond (Rick) Hoskin

To be an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for  services to the blind and people with low vision.

Mr Rick Hoskin has chaired the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB) since 2011.

Mr Hoskin has been totally blind and a member of RNZFB since the age of 17. He joined the RNZFB Board in 2009, at which time the Foundation was facing financial pressures. As Chair, he led the restructuring of property and financial investments, making the organisation financially stable and sustainable. He instigated the Foundation’s annual engagement roadshows where members of the Board and senior management visited towns around the country to hear from the blind and low vision community and learn how the Foundation could better support them. He established an improved service provision based on consumer needs. He instituted Governance and People committees to build greater accountability to members. He was the driving force in establishing a National Contact Centre for clients to have immediate assistance. He chaired the Foundation’s Strategic Planning Committee for two terms for the 2015 to 2020 period and the 2020 to 2024 period, and led a review of the RNZFB constitution. He won three gold medals at the 1977 Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled in track and field. Mr Hoskin has served on the Birkenhead Primary school Board of Trustees, including two years as Chair, and has been active with Birkenhead Rotary.

The Honourable Stephanie Anne (Steve) Chadwick 

To be a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for services to local government and as a Member of Parliament.

The Honourable Steve Chadwick has contributed to both national and local government in New Zealand for the past 21 years.

Ms Chadwick worked as a Health Manager in Rotorua for 24 years, where she helped to design the combined maternal and child health service at the hospital, and established the city’s first Family Planning Clinic and Women’s Refuge. She was an elected member of the Rotorua District Council for one term and a Member of Parliament for four terms. She held roles as the Minister of Conservation, Minister for Women’s Affairs, and Associate Minister of Health. She introduced the Smoke-Free Environments Amendment Bill 2003, which banned smoking in all workplaces including offices, restaurants and schools. She has been the Mayor of Rotorua since 2013. She has advocated for a greater relationship between Te Arawa and the Rotorua Lakes Council, led the development of the Council’s ‘Rotorua 2030 Vision,’ and advocated for the renovation of the Rotorua Public Library to become the first Library and Child Health Hub. She has been a Patron of the New Zealand Guillain Barre Society for the past 14 years Ms Chadwick is Patron of the Rotorua Multiple Sclerosis Society and Rotorua Riding for the Disabled and a Trustee of the Rotorua Museum Centennial Trust.

Professor Emeritus Stuart Alan Middleton 

To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.

Professor Emeritus Stuart Middleton has contributed to secondary and tertiary education for more than 45 years.

Professor Middleton became Head of the Centre for Studies in Multiple Pathways at the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010. He was instrumental in the development of the Tertiary High School to lift barriers to higher education, which opened at the MIT Otara campus in 2010. Around 2,000 students have since attended, with high NCEA pass rates at levels 1, 2 and 3. He has been significantly involved in Pasifika development programmes via MIT, including a special curriculum for school leavers in Tonga in 2013/2014. He chaired the establishment committee of the Auckland Māori and Pasifika Trades Training Initiative (MPTT) from 2014 to 2017. He has worked with IBM to introduce P-Tech to New Zealand, aimed at getting more Māori and Pacific learners into the technology sector, which launched at MIT in 2020. He chaired the Community Education Trust Auckland (COMET) through its transition from a council-controlled organisation from 2010 to 2014. He has been on the Board of Te Aho o Te Kura since 2014 and served on several government advisory groups since 2010. Professor Middleton Co-Chaired the Youth Guarantee Advisory Group from 2010 to 2012 to support disengaged young persons to gain NCEA Level 2 and prepare them for further education.

Thomas Edward (Ted) Howard

Awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to conservation, particularly wildlife conservation.

Mr Ted Howard has been member of Kaikōura Forest and Bird since 2002 and has chaired Hutton’s Shearwater Trust since 2008.

Mr Howard and his wife Ailsa regularly monitor Hutton’s shearwater at the Kaikoūra Peninsula nesting site and banded dotterel nests at South Bay, working to increase protection measures. In 2017 they designed nesting cages for the banded dotterel, with spaced bars to allow the birds in while protecting them from predators. Combined with ongoing trapping, this improved nesting outcomes with every caged nest resulting in at least one successful fledgling in 2018. They set up a system of local guardians for the South Bay to advise visitors on avoiding the nesting areas. He was founding member and Treasurer of Te Korowai o te Tai ō Marokura for a consensus approach to protection of the marine environment. He was a founding member of the Kaikōura Marine Guardians, appointed in 2015, and following the 2016 earthquake was representative to the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery to help ensure the coastal environment was adequately considered. Mr Howard has been involved with local government as a past District Councillor, and variously member and chair of committees concerning water management, works and services, and biosecurity.