Shaun Coffey

Adjunct Professor School of Management
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Shaun Coffey is a science and business entrepreneur with a number of business interests in NZ, the UK, Indonesia and Australia.

Shaun has 40 years international experience working as a Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive. His experience ranges from early success as Executive Director and CEO of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia, to leadership of agricultural research and extension in the Queensland Government, to creating of a new Division in CSIRO Australia and rejuvenating a Crown Research Institute in New Zealand. He has direct experience in founding and establishing numerous start-ups and joint ventures.

Since 2013 Shaun has led his own business, Rebel Heart Leadership, providing governance, leadership and strategy management services, with clients including the European Union, and companies and institutions in Australia, Germany, the US, South Africa, New Zealand and Indonesia. He has provided pro-bono services (governance, strategy, capital raising) to new businesses in Malaysia, Belgium, the UK and Australia. He has also chaired establishment Boards of two NZ start-ups, Navigator Limited and Saved and Safe (UK) Ltd.

Shaun was engaged in 2013 as an Innovation and Science Advisory with the EU-Indonesia Trade Cooperation Facility. In this role he invests about half his time based in Jakarta assisting with strategic change management in major Indonesian government and industry organisations. This involves major institutional reform in several key Ministries and Agencies, and working with Chairmen, Directors-General and Chief Executives.

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Leadership, Accountability and Ability.

Awards and Honours

2012: named as one of the 25 most influential people in New Zealand business (by Listener Magazine)
2010: awarded the Thomson Medal in the annual NZ Science Honours for outstanding and inspirational leadership and for commercialisation of science and technology to wealth generation in New Zealand and Australia
2009: elected as the 27th Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand
2009: listed in the 50 most influential/powerful people in New Zealand (number 2 in Science and Technology behind the Chief Science Advisor)
2008: elected a Companion of the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand
2006: awarded Centenary of Agriculture Medal by the University of Melbourne
2005: admitted as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
2004: elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
2004: awarded Salzburg Fellowship
2000: awarded Silver Medal by the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
1997: awarded a Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International
1995: admitted as Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management

Qualifications

MAgrSc, G Dip Chg Mgmt, GAICD, FTSE, CRSNZ, CompIPENZ, FAIM, FAICD

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