How we developed the Strategy

Kane joined Waka Kotahi following three years with Wellington City Council where he most recently held the Director of Strategy and Governance position. Kane has previously been a partner at law firm Meredith Connell and served as a Crown Prosecutor.

Alyce (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui) is in her final year as an engineering student at the University of Canterbury and also hosts the Māori in Engineering podcast. You can listen to Alyce interview fellow Panel member Troy Brockbank.

Troy (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) has a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Auckland and 14 years of professional engineering experience working in the water sector across consultancies, civil contractors and suppliers. Troy is currently Pou Ārahi Māori, Māori Advisory Lead (Principal) at Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd. He is also a Board member of Taumata Arowai and Water NZ.

Matthew (Te Atiawa, Ngāti Tama) is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, co-Director of Te Au Rangahau and an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Massey University. He has an academic background in health and population economics and researchers broadly as an applied economist and social scientist. His current research projects include: Māori economics & mixed-methods, social capital and wellbeing research, effective health systems and service delivery, Health Economics, population, labour and regional economics.