To be a Companion of the said Order:
AMA, Ms Mary Tupai
For services to the arts and the Pacific community
Ms Mary Ama is a New Zealand-Pacific artist, educator, cultural and community leader.
Ms Ama founded and is lead artist and mentor for Pacifica Mamas, a community arts collective pivotal that deliver Pacific-based arts and cultural programmes. Over a 20-year period the ‘Pacifica Experience’ programme has been delivered to approximately 6,000 school students per year across New Zealand. Following the success of the youth programme she was approached by the Department of Corrections to develop a similar programme for Pacific prison inmates, which led to the development of ‘Polynesian Creations’, a programme she has delivered a Springhill Prison for the last nine years. She received the Arts Access Aotearoa Community Corrections Award in 2015 for her work at Springhill Prison, the first Pacific person to receive this award. The ‘Pacifica Experience’ has since been delivered to participants in the Cook Islands, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and the United States. She has been Patron of the Pacific Arts Centre since 2009 and is a Senior Assessor for Creative New Zealand. Ms Ama has been involved in delivering Pacific arts, culture and community projects for Te Papa, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Council, Auckland Art Gallery, and ASB Polyfest.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
ANDERTON, The Honourable James Patrick (Jim)
For services as a Member of Parliament
The Honourable Jim Anderton was a member of the Labour Party from 1963 until 1989 when he split from Labour to lead various political parties until his retirement in 2011.
Mr Anderton began his political career as a member of the Manukau City Council in 1965, served a term from 1977 on the Auckland Regional Authority and served as Party President of the Labour Party from 1979 to 1984. He was the MP for Sydenham, now Wigram from 1984 to 1996. After splitting from the Labour Party in 1989, he formed the NewLabour Party serving as its leader until it was merged into the Alliance Party in 1993. He led the Alliance Party from 1993 to 1994 and from 1995 to 2002. He formed the Progressive Party in 2002 leading it until the election in 2011. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development from 1999 to 2002 during a coalition with the Labour Government. From 2005 to 2008 he served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister for Biosecurity, Minister of Fisheries, Minister of Forestry and the Minister Responsible for the Public Trust. Mr Anderton, upon his retirement in 2011, held the unofficial title of Father of the House as the longest consecutive serving MP. Following the 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes he has been the Co-chair of the Great Christchurch Building Trust, which is campaigning for the restoration of the Christchurch Anglican Cathedral.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
AUSTIN, Mr Roy James
For services to children's health and the community
Mr Roy Austin has been a Board member from 1994 and Chairman since 1996 of Cure Kids (formerly National Children’s Health Research Foundation).
In an Executive Chairman role from 2006 Mr Austin led a restructure of the charity into an expanded role in the research and ongoing health of children. Under his leadership Cure Kids has become one of the largest funders of child health research in New Zealand, funding four professorial chairs in children’s health at Auckland and Otago Universities. Cure Kids has also seen a fourfold increase over 10 years of annual research funding grants to $2.5 million, established an $8 million government seed investment fund for child healthcare businesses, facilitated the commercialisation of the A2 milk patent originally co-owned by the Foundation for public access to A2 milk benefits, and held iconic national fundraising campaigns such as ‘Red Nose Day’, ‘Ticket to Hope’, ‘The Great Adventure Race’, and ‘$10.00 Queenstown Challenge’. Through Cure Kids he support the joint venture with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to assist in funding a Rheumatic Heart Disease Project in Fiji. He played an active role in the formation of the Rotary Diabetes Prevention Trust. Mr Austin has been involved with a wide range of other community activities, including fundraising for the ASB Stadium, the Anglican Investment Trust Board, and school Boards of Trustees.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
CLARK, Mr Peter Kerry (Kerry), OBE
For services to bowls
Mr Kerry Clark is a leading figure for bowls in New Zealand.
Mr Clark was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1989 for services to bowls. He has since been CEO of Bowls New Zealand since its amalgamation in 1996, and has steered the sport through changing times to keep it relevant for new generations of bowlers. He has been Chair of World Bowls Laws committee since 2004 and has overseen the re-write of laws three times. He chaired the Bowls Events New Zealand Board which organised the World Bowls Championships in 2008. In this role he was also responsible for accessing the funding required to run the World Bowls International events in New Zealand from 2004 to 2008, and the World Bowls Internationals in Christchurch from 2013 to 2016. He has been a Trustee of the Halberg Disability Foundation since 1996 and was made a Life Trustee in 2016. He has been a World Bowls Technical Delegate to seven Commonwealth Games and eight other significant Games tournaments. Mr Clark was Chair of New Zealand Sports Turf Institute from 1997 to 2011.
HONOURS
Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Queen's Birthday 1989
To be a Companion of the said Order:
CRAVEN, Ms Candis Eileen, ONZM
For services to ballet and business
Ms Candis Craven was Chair of the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 2011 to 2016.
Ms Craven steered the RNZB Board through a period of significant national and international activity and change. This included the 60th anniversary of the RNZB in 2013; critically acclaimed tours to China, the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy; the recruitment of internationally renowned artistic directors; and the development of a successful bid for an increase in baseline funding for the RNZB in 2016. She has been instrumental in increasing the RNZB’s non-government sponsorship and philanthropic revenue over this period and in developing other collaborations, including a formal relationship with the New Zealand School of Dance as the official school of the RNZB in 2015. She has maintained a 30-year involvement with the New Zealand Family Planning Association, as well as being a member of the Board of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Ms Craven is Chair of the Cognition Education Trust and Director of Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Board, and as a Chartered Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors has held a range of previous directorships.
HONOURS
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Year 2001
To be a Companion of the said Order:
FERGUSSON, Mr Angus Lindsay (Lindsay)
For services to governance
Mr Lindsay Fergusson is a Life Fellow and former National President of the New Zealand Institute of Management and has held a range of governance roles across various organisations.
Mr Fergusson was Managing Director of Mobil Oil New Zealand from 1984 to 1986, during the financing and construction phases of the Motonui gas to gasoline plant at Waitara. He was Managing Director of New Zealand Steel and Magnum Corporation in the late 1980s. He has been a Director of the Reserve Bank for two terms, as well as of the New Zealand Forestry Corporation, the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and Deputy Chairman of North Health. He was Chairman of the Auckland Institute of Technology Foundation and was involved in AUT gaining University status. In recent years he has been a Director of Terrabyte Interactive, iiNet Australia and Chairman of Ecodiesel. He was a founder, former Chairman and CEO of Virtual Spectator Group. He was Chairman of the New Zealand Expo 1992 and headed the organisation that received the Whitbread Round the World Yacht race into Auckland. He was founding Chairman of the America's Cup Village, the venue for America's Cup 2000. Locally Mr Fergusson has been CEO of Auckland Trotting Club and Director of Tauranga Civic Holdings.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
GILLING, Professor Peter John
For services to Urology
Dr Peter Gilling is an internationally renowned Urological Surgeon who has contributed significantly to the development of this field of medicine in New Zealand for more than 25 years.
Dr Gilling is a Tauranga-based Urologist and is Professor of Surgery at the University of Auckland and Head of the University’s Academic site in Tauranga. He is the Head of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board Clinical School and Head of the Clinical Trials Unit for that DHB, and was primarily responsible for the development of both these entities. In the field of Urology he is nationally and internationally known for the research and treatment of prostate disease, particularly Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) and Cancer of the Prostate. He has pioneered a number of surgical treatments but particularly laser prostatectomy using the Holmium Laser, which has been adopted throughout the world. He has also introduced many advanced surgical treatments into New Zealand including open, laparoscopic and robotic approaches to common urological conditions. A former Examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Dr Gilling is on the Editorial Board of six major urology journals and has published extensively in the scientific literature.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
HALL, Mr Anthony John (Tony), MNZM
For services to education and sport
Mr Tony Hall has contributed to sport and tertiary education in the Canterbury region and nationally.
As Pro-Chancellor and then Chancellor of Lincoln University, Mr Hall has provided leadership through a challenging period post-earthquake, and has overseen the progression towards the establishment of the Lincoln Research and Education Hub. He served as the Chair of the Agriculture and Life Sciences Partnership of Excellence, a Commissioner of the Tertiary Education Commission, and has been a Ministerial appointment to the University of Canterbury Council. He is the Founding Director of Community Colleges New Zealand, whose mission is to provide pathways for early school leavers with low or no qualifications. He has been a Director of CORE Education. He is a Board Member of the New Zealand Olympic Committee and a member of the NZOC Selection Panel. He supports and sponsors the Winter Paralympian team. He established the Gilly & Tony Hall Foundation to help fund this and other charitable initiatives. He has had a long association with sport in Canterbury; the Coast to Coast multisport event, Chair and Trustee of Sport Canterbury, and as Chair and Trustee of the North Canterbury Sport and Recreation Trust, Mr Hall has overseen considerable expansion of sporting and recreation programmes in North Canterbury, including the establishment of the Primary School Coaching Programme.
HONOURS
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Queens Birthday 2007
To be a Companion of the said Order:
POULTON, Professor Richie Graham
For services to science and health research
Professor Richie Poulton is an influential social scientist in New Zealand and has served on many government, public and academic statutory bodies, and is a consultant internationally.
Professor Poulton’s major areas of research are mental health, nature-nurture interplay in the prediction of complex disorders, and psychosocial determinants of chronic physical disease. In 1995 he took up the position of Deputy Director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit and later became Director in 2000. In 2007 he established and became a Co-Director of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, a research centre based at the University of Otago in Dunedin, but with partners located at universities across New Zealand and around the world. He has led the internationally renowned Dunedin multidisciplinary longitudinal birth cohort study since 2000. In 2014 he was appointed as part-time Chief Science Advisor to the Ministry of Social Development and in that role he has led much of the work advising government on social investment and was a member of the Rebstock committee reviewing Child, Youth and Family Services. In 2014 Professor Poulton was named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson-Reuters, one of only four New Zealanders to be so designated, and was listed in Thomson-Reuters ‘2014 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
PROVOST, Mrs Lynette Diana (Lyn)
For services to the State
Mrs Lyn Provost was Controller and Auditor-General from October 2009 until 2017, responsible for giving independent assurance to Parliament and the public about the performance and accountability of public organisations.
Under Mrs Provost’s leadership the Office of the Auditor-General received the highest score for Transparency International New Zealand’s 2013 National Integrity Systems Assessment. She has increased the visibility and understanding of the Auditor-General through developing and reporting on annual themes of issues facing the public sector. She has improved New Zealand’s accounting and auditing reputation internationally and has been instrumental in improving the standard of auditing and government accounting in developing nations, especially in the Pacific. She was on the governing board of International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions and was Secretary-General of Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions. She contributed to the development of international public sector accounting standards and implemented them in New Zealand. From 2001 to 2009 she was the first female and civilian Deputy Commissioner of New Zealand Police (Resource Management), responsible for six police districts as well as leading human resources, finance, information technology and strategy and policy in New Zealand Police. Mrs Provost was previously acting Chief Executive at Archives New Zealand and was involved in the establishment of that organisation.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
RHODES, Dr Lesley Louise
For services to science and marine farming
Dr Lesley Rhodes has been a Senior Scientist with the Cawthron since 1994 and initiated and led the ‘Safe New Zealand seafood for global consumers’ research programme from 2003 until 2016, and established the internationally significant Cawthron Institute culture collection of microalgae.
These programmes have revolutionised the management of marine algal blooms and biotoxins in shellfish internationally and ensured New Zealand’s seafood exports meet international food safety standards, underpinning most of New Zealand’s shellfish export industry. Dr Rhodes has pioneered the use of molecular techniques for environmental biomonitoring, which are now used as part of the regular phytoplankton monitoring programme and help distinguish toxic and non-toxic species, helping marine farmers make informed risk assessments. She and her team developed robust chemical analysis methods, which have eliminated the use of live mice in testing shellfish toxin in New Zealand and in other parts of the world. She has published more than 100 papers in international journals and has influenced international monitoring standards and policy development. She co-established the original Nelson’s Women in Science network and has been active in this organisation at local and national levels. She has been on the editorial boards of three scientific journals and is a member of several scientific societies. Within her local community Dr Rhodes has been involved with Nelson Rape Crisis and fostered two brothers for a decade.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
SALMOND, Dr George Cockburn
For services to health
Dr George Salmond has contributed to health services for more than forty years.
Dr Salmond was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Otago University’s Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. He was Director of Management Services at the Department of Health from 1973 to 1983. As Director-General of Health from 1986 to 1991 he oversaw major reorganisation of the department including the introduction of Area Health Boards. He has led New Zealand delegations to World Health Organisation meetings and has been a technical advisor to WHO. He was inaugural Director of the Health Services Research Centre. He has served on numerous advisory committees, including the Board of Health, the Medical Research Council, and the Health Workforce Advisory Committee. He served as the founding Secretary and later as the President of what was to become the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine. In the 1980s and 1990s he was active both in New Zealand and internationally in the work of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Since the 1970s he has contributed voluntarily to local community health services, especially in Porirua, including healthcare projects such as The Porirua Health Partnership. Dr Salmond has been Trustee for the Wise Group, is Director of Te Pou, Chairman of Blueprint Centre of Learning and an associate of Healthcare Aoteoroa.
To be a Companion of the said Order:
SIMMONS, Ms Maxine Helen
For services to science, particularly biotechnology
Ms Maxine Simmons has been a leader in scientific research and innovation for more than 35 years.
In 1983 Ms Simmons co-founded Immuno-Chemical Products (ICPBio) Ltd and was CEO until 2003. ICPBio was one of New Zealand’s first biotechnology companies, which produced antibodies and veterinary products and grew to export to more than 45 countries. She was interim Chief Executive for reagent manufacturer Symansis NZ and biotechnology company Photonz Corporation. In 2005 she founded BioCatalyst Ltd, a specialist consultancy providing capital raising and management advice to start-up biotechnology and life science companies, where she continues as Managing Director. She was Chair of Im-Able Ltd, manufacturers of the ableX stroke recovery system. She has been Chief Executive of Cure Kids Ventures for the past nine years. She was a member of the Foundation for Research Science and Technology Board and chaired its Investment Committee and Technology New Zealand Sub-committee. She is a member of the governing board of the Maurice Wilkins Centre for BioDiscovery, the advisory board of the MedTech CoRE, and was a member of the Industrial Research Ltd Board. Ms Simmons was an inaugural member of the Industry New Zealand Board and was one of New Zealand’s three representatives to the APEC Business Advisory Council from 2010 to 2014.