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Dr Roderick Deane - Chairman
PhD, BCom (Hons), FACA, FCIS, FNZIM, Honorary LLD

Roderick Deane has had an extensive career in business as Chairman and as a Director of a number of major New Zealand and Australian companies and earlier in the public sector and central banking. He has also had a considerable involvement with charitable and cultural organisations. He is currently Chairman of the New Zealand Seed Fund, a Director of  Woolworths Limited, Joint Patron with his wife Gillian of NZ’s largest voluntary welfare organization, IHC Inc., and Chairman of the IHC Foundation.  

Dr Deane was previously Chairman of Fletcher Building Ltd, and its predecessor Fletcher Challenge Ltd, Telecom Corporation of NZ Limited, ANZ National Bank Ltd, Te Papa Tongarewa (the Museum of New Zealand), and the City Gallery Wellington Foundation. He was also a Director of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

In the past Dr Deane has been involved in the executive branch of Government, as Chairman of the State Services Commission, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and an Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. He was also Chief Executive of the Electricity Corporation of NZ Ltd and Chief Executive and Managing Director of Telecom NZ Ltd.

He had previously been Professor of Economics and Management at Victoria University of Wellington, a Director of TransAlta Corporation in Canada, Chairman of the Mayoral Business Advisory Group in Wellington, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Enterprise Council.  

Dr Deane is a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Independent Studies and the NZ Association of Economists. He was the inaugural NZIER Economist of the Year in NZ, and has been CEO of the Year, Chairman of the Year, and Executive of the Decade in the NZ Management Awards. He was named a Wellington City Icon In the Wellington City Gold Awards, is a member of the NZ Business Hall of Fame, and with his wife Gillian was honoured with the Patronage Award by the Arts Foundation of NZ.

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