Profile of Council Members 2011
The Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor are elected annually by the Council members at a Council meeting.
Officers of Council:
- Chancellor, Mr Ian D. McKinnon
- Pro-Chancellor, Ms Helen Sutch
- Vice-Chancellor, Professor Pat Walsh
- Chair, Finance Committee, Mr James Ogden
Other Members of Council:
- Ms Rosemary Barrington
- Mr Seamus Brady
- Mr David Chamberlain
- Associate Professor Megan Clark
- Professor Charles Daugherty
- Mr Kevin T Duggan
- Mr Charles Finny
- Ms Patricia McKelvey
- Mr Graeme Mitchell
- Professor Paul Morris
- Dr Jock Phillips
- Mrs Brenda Pilott
- Mr Conrad Reyners
- Mr Roger Taylor
Chancellor
| Ian D McKinnon, QSO, JP, BCom, DipEd |
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| Elected by the Court of Convocation |
| Term of Office: 2003-2006, 2007-2010, 2011-2014 |
Mr Ian McKinnon was a student at VUW in the 1960s, graduating with a BCom in Economics. He also served on the Students Association Executive, becoming Men's Vice-President in 1966.
Mr McKinnon's career has been in the independent school sector. He first taught at King's College in Auckland, where he was also a boarding housemaster, and then at Eton College in the UK, where he subsequently returned as Lower Master, cf Deputy Headmaster, in 1988. He was Headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School from 1980-1988 and Scots College, 1992-2002, thus in today's terms, being also CEO at both schools. During his time in the school sector he served on various government committees on education and also on both the Executive of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools, of which he was President 1998-2000, and the Executive of the Independent Schools Council.
Following his time as a Head, he set up an Education Consultancy advising schools. In addition he was Chair of the Wellington College of Education for two years, in the period leading to its merger with the University in January 2005. and Chair of The Correspondence School for three years durings its restructure.
Further, he has served and continues to serve on various other bodies, including for a number of years the Waitangi (now Link) Foundation for UK - NZ relations. For his work in the UK on the NZ 1990 Commemorations he was awarded the NZ 1990 Commemoration Medal. He received the QSO in 1991 for services to NZ in the UK and in 1992 was made a Freeman of the City of London. In 2005 he became a Distinguished Alumnus of Auckland University. He is a Justice of the Peace.
Mr McKinnon has been a Wellington City Councillor since 2004 and became Deputy Mayor in 2007.
Pro-Chancellor
| Helen Sutch, MPhil Oxf, MA |
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| Elected by the Court of Convocation |
| Term of Office: 2008-2010 (co-opted), 2011-2014 |
Helen Sutch was a student at Victoria from 1963-67, member of the VUWSA Executive 1963-64, NZUSA Vice-President 1965-66, and represented Victoria at women's hockey 1963-66. She was active in the Drama Club and Committee on Vietnam, and organised a teach-in on Vietnam at VUW in 1966. She received an MPhil in Economics at Oxford in 1970 and was a Lecturer in Economics at VUW in 1971-72.
Her professional grounding is as a public economist with a strong interest in social and poverty issues. After working in the UK Government Economic Service on policy and research on urban poverty, Ms Sutch joined the NZ Treasury in the mid-1970s, and then worked at the OECD from 1981-85. She returned to become economic adviser to the Prime Minister in late 1985, and later Director of Policy and Research and Chief Labour Market Adviser in the Labour Department, where her team contributed analysis on Treaty, immigration, pay equity and other issues for the Royal Commission on Social Policy.
In 1989 she took the Advanced Management (CEO) Program at the Harvard Business School before joining the World Bank (1989-2007), first in francophone Africa, and then in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, where she contributed to a wide range of macro-fiscal and institutional reforms and was also a member of the Bank's Board on Women in Development. After three years in Warsaw working on governance issues in Poland and the Baltics she became manager in 2000 for Public Sector Governance strategy, programs and knowledge management Bank-wide, before moving to the East Asia and Pacific region in late 2003. Ms Sutch returned to Wellington in 2004 where she now works on her own account, with a continuing involvement in PNG and East Timor.
Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive
| Professor Pat Walsh, MA Cant, PhD Minn |
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| Term of Office: 2005-2013 |
Pat Walsh was appointed a Lecturer in Industrial Relations at Victoria in 1981. Since then, he has served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration, Head of the Victoria Management School and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Commerce and Administration, and Pro Vice-Chancellor Research. He was appointed Professor of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in 1999 and was for many years leader of a major Foundation for Research, Science and Technology project analysing industrial relations in New Zealand. He is the author of numerous articles and several books. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor in 2005.
Chair, Finance Committee
| James Ogden, BCA (Hons), FCA, FInstD, CFIP |
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| Appointed by the Minister of Education |
| Term of Office: Oct 2002 - Feb 2007, Feb 2007 - 18 Feb 2011 |
Mr Ogden is a business and investment consultant and company director. Current boards include The Warehouse, Vehicle Testing Group and Chairman of the Ministry of Social Development's Audit Committee. Prior to becoming a company director, Mr Ogden was an investment banker - seven years as Country Manager for Macquarie Bank and five years as a director of Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to investment banking, Mr Ogden was eight years in the New Zealand dairy industry in chief executive and finance roles.
Mr Ogden is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, and a Certified Finance and Investment Professional, and was a NZX Broker.
Council Members
| Rosemary Barrington, BA (Hons), MSc Lond |
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| Elected by the Court of Convocation |
| Term of Office: 1999-2000 (co-opted), 2001-2004, 2005-2008, 2009-2012 |
Ms Barrington was a tutor in the Sociology Department at VUW from 1969-1970, and again from 1974-76. From 1980-84 she was a research fellow at the Institute of Criminology VUW.
In 1986-89 Ms Barrington was Director of the Government Research Unit at Parliament and then in 1989 went into the Prime Minister's Department.
In 1989-92 Ms Barrington moved to the Hutt City Council, becoming Group Manager Community Services. She was then appointed General Manager Culture and Recreation at the Wellington City Council from 1992-96. From 1996 to 2000, she held the position of Chief Executive Officer for the Horowhenua District Council.
Until recently, Ms Barrington was a senior policy analyst in the office of the Hon Pete Hodgson. She is now a consultant in local government and transport.
Chancellor 2002-2004, Chair Finance Committee 2001.
| Seamus Brady, BA |
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| Elected by the Court of Convocation |
| Term of Office: 2011-2014 |
Seamus Brady is the current President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA). Prior to this he served for two terms as the Vice-President (Welfare). As President, he is responsible to all students for the overall effectiveness of VUWSA and for advocating for quality education, fair-decision making and a strong student experience.
He has completed a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science and attended Wellington High School.
Since 2009 he has been a student representative on the Ministry of Social Development’s Student Allowance Board. He is also a member of the governing body of the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA), a trustee of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association Trust and the Victoria Broadcasting Trust. He is also a member of a number of University bodies including Academic Board, and the Advisory Committee on the Student Service Levy.
| David B Chamberlain, BEc Macquarie, FIAA, FNZSA, MInstD |
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| Appointed by the Minister of Education |
| Term of Office: 1 June 2009 - 31 May 2013 |
David Chamberlain is currently Head of Bancassurance at Kiwibank. Prior to this position he worked as an independent consulting actuary for over 10 years and has over 20 years commercial experience in the financial services sector.
David is a Director of the New Zealand Blood Service, a Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and a member of the Institute of Directors. He has a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University in Sydney and has previously assisted the Institute of Actuaries of Australia with its education process as a volunteer.
| Megan Clark, MSc |
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| Elected by the academic staff |
| Term of Office: 2011-2014 |
Associate Professor Megan Clark was a student at Victoria University in the late 1960s graduating with a BSc in Mathematics. She began her career secondary teaching at Wellington Girls College. In 1970 she returned to Victoria University for an Honours degree and at the end of that year was appointed as a Junior Lecturer in the Mathematics department. She completed an MSc during her first few years of employment at VUW and has remained on the academic staff here for the whole of the rest of her career apart from a year overseas in 1980 at the end of which she was re-appointed by VUW.
She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and one textbook. Her specialist academic area is mathematics education focusing on issues around diversity and more recently, transition across educational boundaries in mathematics. In 1991 she was appointed as the New Zealand representative on the International Commission for Mathematical Instruction for 4 years and from 1990-1991 she was the Minister of Education's representative on the NZEI Ethics Committee while from 1991 to 1992 she was appointed to the Minister of Education's Policy Advisory Group for Mathematics. In 1993 she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Medal for services to Education and in 1994 she received a Royal Society Medal for services to Science Education. In 2000 she was a British Council visitor to the UK.
| Charles Daugherty, ONZM, FRSNZ, AB Middlebury, PhD Montana |
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| Elected by the academic staff |
| Term of Office: 2005-2008, 2009-2012 |
Charles Daugherty has been a member of VUW academic staff since 1982 and is presently Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Ecology. He has previously served as Acting Dean of Science and Head of the School of Biological Sciences. He has held academic appointments at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois, Northern Michigan University, and the University of Montana.
Professor Daugherty leads VUW's contribution to the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. His research interests focus on the ecology, genetics, and conservation of indigenous New Zealand animals. He is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, and he has been a member of the Marsden Council, the International Advisory Board of the World Congress of Herpetology, and the Board of Trustees of WWF-NZ.
| Kevin T Duggan, LLM, BCA, CA, ACIS, MNZCS |
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| Elected by the general staff |
| Term of Office: 1991-1994, 1999-2002, 2003-2006, 2007-2010, 2011-2014 |
Kevin Duggan has been employed within the administration of Victoria University for 38 years, initially in the areas of statistics and data processing and currently as Management Information Analyst in the Finance Office.
Mr Duggan has been actively involved in all facets of education governance from pre-school and school committees through to college boards and was the first VUW Council Member elected by the General Staff (1991-1994).
He is currently Chairperson, Trinity Newman Trust, Treasurer VUW Association of University Staff, Auditor, VUW Staff Club, having previously served as its president 1995-1996, and mentor of VUW Toastmaster Club.
| Charles Finny, BA (Hons) |
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| Appointed after consultation with Business New Zealand. |
| Term of Office: 2008-2009 (co-opted), 2009-31 Dec 2012 |
Charles Finny has been with the public policy firm Saunders Unsworth since 1 July 2010. He was CEO of the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce from January 2005 to June 2010. Prior to that, he had 22 years experience in international trade, economics and diplomacy having served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Prime Minister's Department. He has lived in Singapore, Beijing and Taipei. Charles is also on the Boards of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the New Zealand Film Commission, and Kawerau Estate Limited. Charles chairs the Local Government Forum and the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre.
Charles part owns a wine company Kawarau Estate which exports wine to Australia, US, UK, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea.| Patricia McKelvey, CNZM, MBE |
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| Appointed by the Minister of Education |
| Term of Office: 2003-Feb 2007, Feb 2007-27 Feb 2011 |
Patricia McKelvey is currently Chair of The Correspondence School Board of Trustees. She is also a member of the Social Security Appeal Authority and a Director of Electra Limited. She retired in 1994 after seven years as Principal of Wellington High School, prior to which she held teaching positions at Hutt Valley Memorial College, Solway College and Wellington High School.
Trained as a Physical Education teacher, Ms McKelvey has enjoyed success in both education and sport. She was Captain of the New Zealand Women's Cricket Team for 16 years (1966-1982) and has taken several other leadership roles in cricket, including serving on the Board of New Zealand Cricket. She is a Life Member of both New Zealand Cricket and Cricket Wellington and currently serves on the Boards of Barnados and Bowls New Zealand.
| Graeme R Mitchell, BA (Hons), Stirling, CA (Scot) FCA (NZ) |
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| Co-opted by the Council |
| Term of Office: Feb 2009-2013 |
Chair of Audit and Risk Committee
Graeme Mitchell is a chartered accountant, recently retired from Deloitte, Wellington where he was an Audit and Assurance Partner for over 28 years. He was responsible for leading the audits of large entities in the public and private sectors, covering a wide range of business activities.
Graeme completed his tertiary education in economics at Stirling University, Scotland and has lived in Wellington for 32 years.
He is Honorary Consul General for Norway, a director of Barnardos New Zealand, and a board member of the Karori Sanctuary Trust, the National Provident Fund and the Accounting Standards Review Board.
| Paul Morris, MA McM, PhD Lanc |
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| Elected by the academic staff |
| Term of Office: 1997-2000, 2001-2004, 2005-2008, 2009-2012 |
Professor of Religious Studies at Victoria University since 1994. Professor Morris is Programme Director of Religious Studies and the author and editor of books on the bible, religion and politics, religion in Malaysia and New Zealand, religion, modernity and post-modernity, New Zealand spiritual poetry, religion and the environment, tradition in the contemporary world, and an encyclopaedia of religion. He has been awarded a Montana prize, short-listed for another and the 2007 International Council of Christians and Jews Peace Through Dialogue Gold Medal for his contributions of national and international interfaith understanding.
Professor Morris has been active at Victoria on school, faculty, university and union committees and was the Convener of the review panel for the Review of Social Work. He is currently chair of the board of a New Zealand charity, the co-president of the New Zealand Council of Christians and Jews, and the author of the recent Statement of Religious Diversity in New Zealand.
Prior to joining Victoria University, Professor Morris was at Lancaster University from 1980-1984. He has held visiting professorships of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Boston University, and the University of Queensland. His research areas are in religion and politics, religion and morality, theories of religion, contemporary Judaism and the contemporary challenges to religion.
| Dr Jock Phillips, BA, AM Harvard PhD Harvard |
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| Elected by the Court of Convocation |
| Term of Office: 2001-2004, 2005-2008, 2009-2012 |
Dr Phillips is currently General Editor of Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. From 1973 to 1986 he was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer in History at Victoria University, Director of the Stout Research Centre 1984-1988 and Reader in History, 1986 to 1989. He has also held the posts of Chief Historian (1989-1997; and 2000-2002), and General Manager, Heritage (Acting), Department of Internal Affairs (1997-2000). He was the Conceptual Leader (history) for Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand 1994-1998.
Dr Phillips has been a board member of the New Zealand-US Education Foundation since 1995 and was the President of the National Library Society in 1994. He is the author of ten books on New Zealand history.
| Brenda Pilott, BA (Hons) Essex, DipLIS London |
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| Appointed by the University Council after consultation with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions |
| Term of Office: May 2008 - April 2012 |
Brenda Pilott is national secretary of the Public Service Association, New Zealand's largest trade union. Prior to joining the PSA in 2004, she was a public servant for 11 years, working mainly in social policy, including 5 years as General Manager Policy at the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services. She was Women's Refuge national coordinator for four years. A qualified librarian, Brenda Pilott worked in libraries in local government in New Zealand and the UK and at the Parliamentary Library.
She has a range of governance experience, including being a current member of the management board of the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand; and was a Board member of the Local Government Industry Training Organisation, 2005-7. She was appointed as a director of Learning State Ltd, the public sector industry training organisation, in 2010. Brenda Pilott was born and educated in England and emigrated to New Zealand in 1980.
| Conrad Reyners, BA (Hons) |
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| Appointed by the Executive of the VUW Students Association |
| Term of Office: 2010, 2011 |
Conrad Reyners was elected as the University Council student representative by the student body at large for the 2010 term and was re-elected for the 2011 term.
He is currently in his final year of study, as he completes his Law Degree. He also holds an Honours Degree in International Relations, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations. He is employed as a tutor for both the Faculty of Commerce and the Faculty of Humanities and is employed as a research assistant in the Faculty of Law. In addition he is serving on the University's Academic Committee for the 2011 term. He served on the St Patrick College Board of Trustees from 2005-2006.
Conrad has been involved in a range of student clubs on campus, serving on the Debating Society Executive from 2007-2008, the Victoria University Students' Association Publications Committee from 2008-2009 and the UniQ Executive from 2008-2009. He has worked as a journalist for Salient from 2008 - 2011, and is currently employed as a senior writer for NZGamer.com.
| Roger N Taylor, MCom, BA Cant |
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| Co-opted by the Council |
| Term of Office: 2011-2013 |
Roger is a former financial consulting partner with Ernst and Young. He has specialised in providing financial advice and litigation support on price setting and valuations for infrastructural businesses and on behalf of the government. He has been an advisor to a number of government departments and agencies.
Roger is a director of a number of companies in the electricity and port sectors. He has also been a board member of a wide range of public sector organisations including The Open Polytechnic, the Wellington College of Education, Te Kura the Correspondence school as well as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company.