Waikato Golden Key

Gerald Bailey

Gerald was Chancellor of the University from 1992 to 1997 and was a member of the University Council for a total of 12 years. He was the first Chairman of the University of Waikato Foundation, the University’s fundraising entity, and has now taken over the role of Director of the Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of WaikatoLink Ltd, the University’s commercialisation company. Gerald has carried on practice as a lawyer in Hamilton for over 30 years and is a long-serving cricket administrator, both at provincial and national level, having managed New Zealand cricket teams on two overseas tours. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in 1999 and was recently made a life member of the Northern Districts Cricket Association, of which he is currently the President (2005).
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/foundation

Geoff Balme

Geoff is a local man, born in Morrinsville and educated in Hamilton. He was appointed the University of Waikato’s Chief Operating Officer in January 2004 after spending several months as the Acting Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he was a Partner with Beattie Rickman in Hamilton for over ten years. Geoff is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants New Zealand and of the Institute of Directors.
Geoff is passionate about the Waikato and actively promotes it at every opportunity – both professionally and on a volunteer community basis. He has assisted with securing $2 million of Government funding for Innovation Park in addition to involvement with fundraising for the Gallagher Hockey Centre. Geoff is a leader in the initiative to try to bid for hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Hamilton, Rotorua and Tauranga.
Geoff spent almost ten years in Canada and during this time competed for New Zealand in international luge competitions, including World Cup and World Championship events. Geoff is currently the President of the New Zealand Olympic Luge Association and a Regional Vice President of the International Luge Federation. He was an elected member of the Board of the New Zealand Olympic Committee from 1996 to 2003, and is a former Trustee of Sport Waikato. Geoff was also the Chef de Mission (Team Manager) for the New Zealand Teams competing at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan (1998) and Salt Lake City, USA (2002) and has had the pleasure of attending four Olympic Winter Games. His other sporting interests are running marathons, skiing, snow-boarding and sailing.

Richard Bedford

Professor Richard Bedford is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato where he has been based since 1989. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Auckland and his PhD was completed in 1971 in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. He is a specialist in migration studies and since the mid-1960s he has been researching processes of population movement in the Asia-Pacific region.
During the 1980s Professor Bedford was the Convenor of the Population Monitoring Group of the former New Zealand Planning Council. In 1990 he was awarded the NZ 1990 Medal for services of New Zealand. In 2000 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Between 1995 and 2003 he was a member of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, and Chair of the Commission’s Social Sciences Sub-Commission. Since 1996 he has been the New Zealand Immigration Service’s representative on the inter-governmental International Metropolis Project, and the Royal Society of New Zealand’s contact point with the International Geographical Union (IGU). Between 2001 and 2003 he was academic adviser to the Ministerial Advisory Group on Immigration.
Between 1993 and 2004 Professor Bedford co-led with Professor Ian Pool the FRST-funded “Demographic Directions Programme”. He is currently co-ordinator of the FRST-funded “Strangers in Town Programme”, and a member of a team of researchers, supported by the Marsden Fund, examining the international movements of New Zealanders living in Australia. He is one of New Zealand’s leading researchers and commentators on international migration.
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/geography/staff/dick

Margaret Bedggood

Margaret Bedggood is a Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, where she was Dean of the Law School from 1994 to 1999. For five years (1989 - 1994) she was the Chief Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, during the passage of the Human Rights Act 1993. She has been a member of Amnesty International since 1968, was previously Chair of the New Zealand section and is now a member of its governing body the nine person International Executive Committee.
She has taught law and classics in a variety of institutions and jurisdictions and has published in tort, employment law and human rights. Margaret has been an assistant director of the Te Matahauariki research institute working on a project entitled Laws and Institutions for Aotearoa/New Zealand.
She is a member of the Faculty of a Summer School Programme of the Continuing Education Programme at the University of Oxford on International Human Rights Law.
She is a member of the Refugee Council, and has a long-standing interest in social justice issues within the Anglican Church, as a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis.
She is the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Human Rights Foundation of Aotearoa New Zealand (see www.humanrights.co.nz).

Jeremy Callaghan

Jeremy Callaghan became an Honorary Member of Golden Key in October 1999, in recognition of his contribution to the chartering of the University of Waikato chapter. As Assistant Vice-Chancellor of the University, Jeremy acted as Advisor to the chapter until April 2002, when he left New Zealand for Ireland. Since then, he has tried his hand at a number of jobs and now works as Director of Student Affairs at the University of Limerick.
Jeremy's interests include acting, sport and vintage cars. In 2000, he published 'The Excellent Secretary: A Guide to Best Practice in Committee Servicing '(Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 2000), a must for anyone involved in committee work who wishes to avoid the morass to which almost all committees seem drawn. He lives in Co. Limerick with his wife, dog, cat and two children – but is working on the latter

John Gallagher

A former Executive Director of the Gallagher Group, John has retired from full-time management to focus on the development and management of the Gallagher Group charitable trust. John is Chancellor of the University of Waikato and a Chairman of the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity Waikato.
http://www.gallaghergroup.co.nz

Theresa Gattung

Appointed Chief Executive of Telecom New Zealand Ltd on 1 October 1999, Theresa Gattung has a record of outstanding achievement at the highest levels of New Zealand business. She is leading Telecom’s efforts to create their future business integrating and hosting the full range of communications services customers need across Internet, electronic commerce, mobile, data, calling and access.
As Group General Manager, Services for Telecom she had one of the single biggest line management positions in New Zealand business, accountable for revenues of NZ$3 billion and responsible for over 3,500 staff. She held this position from April 1996 until her appointment as Chief Executive. Previously she was General Manager, Marketing for Telecom.
Before joining Telecom in 1994, Theresa was Chief Manager, Marketing for Bank of New Zealand, and had previously held executive positions with National Mutual and TVNZ.
Born in Wellington in 1962, she attended McKillop College, Rotorua, where was joint Dux in 1979. Theresa graduated with a Bachelor of Management Studies (Honours, with majors in Economics and Marketing) from the University of Waikato in 1983 and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Victoria University in 1987.
Theresa’s entire career has been a “new economy” companies - telecommunications, media, information technology, banking and finance.
http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,3900,200652-1548,00.html

Roy Crawford

Roy Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, whose primary research interest has been in the mechanical properties and processing behaviour of plastics. From 1989 – 1999 he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the School of Mechanical and Process Engineering at the Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He was also responsible for establishing the Polymer Processing Research Centre at Queens University. This Centre included the Research Group on rotational moulding of plastics, which he also established. From 1999 - 2001 he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
From 2001 - 2004 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at Queens University Belfast. In January 2005 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He has had substantial and very successful experience in the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) in the UK, having led his own School from Grade 3 in the 1992 RAE to the top Grade of 5* in 1996. He was a member of the 2001 RAE Panel for assessing Mechanical Engineering in all universities in the UK, and his School achieved a grade of 5* once again in 2001. He has very strong academic and research credentials.
He has published 8 books and over 300 papers and has been a member of numerous government panels and research grant committees in the UK. His particular expertise is associated with the rotational moulding of plastics. He is widely recognised as a world leader in this field and has given keynote lectures, courses and seminars on this subject all over the world.
Professor Crawford has a BSc, PhD and a DSc from Queen’s University. He is a Fellow of a number of professional organisations and in 1998 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers. Only 227 Fellows have been elected worldwide to this Society since it was established in 1946.
Married with two sons and one daughter, Professor Crawford is a UK national and is also a permanent resident of New Zealand.

Tessa Duder

Tessa Duder lives in Auckland, and has four daughters and a grand-daughter. She was educated in Auckland and as a prominent swimmer in the late 1950s won many New Zealand titles and the silver medal for butterfly at the Empire Games, Cardiff, 1958.
Trained as a journalist, and after experience at the Auckland Star and Daily Express, London, she began writing fiction at 38. Her novels for young readers include the Alex quartet (Alex,Alex in Winter,Alessandra: Alexs in Rome and Songs for Alex, all re-issued in 2003), Night Race to Kawau, Jellybean, Mercury Beach, Hot Mail (with William Taylor) and most recently the Tiggie Tompson trilogy. The paperback of Alex is Penguin New Zealand's best-selling ever work of fiction, for adults or children, and in 1993 became a New Zealand-Australia feature film. Her novels for young readers have been published in America, Britain, Australia, Canada and in five languages. Alex, and her second novel, Jellybean were American Library Association Honour Books.
Her non-fiction books include a number of anthologies for both young and adult readers, the most recent being two adult collections of sea stories, a collection of lullabies, and Storylines: the Anthology for the Children Literature Foundation of New Zealand. Other works include short stories, poems, scripts for children television and two books for the Spirit of Adventure Trust. As an actor she has appeared in Shakespeare and in eleven episodes of Shortland Street(1997). She teaches occasional courses in creative writing, and has been a judge for the NZ Post Children's Book Awards and for several national short story competitions, notably the Sunday-Star Times and Katherine Mansfield young writers awards.
Under the NZ Book Council's Writers-in-Schools scheme, she regularly visits classrooms all over the country, and has spoken at professional seminars of teachers, librarians and parents, including international conferences in Sweden, America, England, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington.
Among her awards are three New Zealand Children's Book of the Year awards and three Esther Glen medals. She held the Waikato University writers fellowship in 1991 and in 2003 won the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship to live and work in Menton, France.
From 1996 to 1998 Tessa Duder was president of the NZ Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc). She currently serves on the management committee of the Storylines Festival and the Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand, and is a Trustee of the Spirit of Adventure Trust.
Work-in-progress currently includes short stories, a biography, an anthology of sea stories for young readers, a picture book and an adult novel.
Among her leisure interests are theatre going, music, reading and sailing. She was awarded a New Zealand Commemorative Medal in 1990, the Margaret Mahy Medal for a distinguished contribution to children literature in 1996 and an O.B.E. for services to literature in 1994.

Bryan Gould

Bryan was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1962 and this took him to Oxford where he added two more qualifications (BCL (Oxon) First Class Honours and LLM) to those already gained in New Zealand (BA, LLB (NZ) (BA in History) (Victoria and Auckland Universities) and LLM (Auck) First Class Honours). From there he joined the Foreign Office before becoming and academic at the University of Oxford. His career in the British Labour party grew steadily in the 1970’s and ‘80’s before Bryan was defeated as a candidate for the Labour Party leadership in 1992. His position as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato commenced in 1994 and he continued in this role until his retirement in 2004. Bryan is the author of several books and continues to write. He was recognised for his services to New Zealand education with a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005.

Kay Gregory

Kay Gregory is a journalist and former presenter at Television New Zealand. Kay began her television career in 1994, when she became a newsreader and current affairs host for Hamilton's regional television channel, Coast to Coast. She began her career at TVNZ in 1996, as a reporter for the Breakfast programme when it first went to air in 1997. Kay later became a reporter for One News, followed by a two year stint from 2002 to 2004, as TV One's full-time weather presenter. In January 2005 Kay returned to Breakfast, joining Paul Henry as co-host of the show.
Kay left TVNZ in August 2007 to focus on her family and other work commitments. She has since moved into local body politics and is a councilor for Hamilton West on the Hamilton City Council.
Kay is involved in various charities, including the Parkinson's Society and Breast Cancer Foundation. She is also an ambassador for Dress for Success, a charitable trust aimed at helping women back into the workforce. In addition to this she is a marriage and funeral celebrant, and a member of International Training and Communication, an organisation which involves giving speaking seminars.

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Shaw Mead

Following an MSc at the Leigh Marine Lab in marine ecology and environmental science, Shaw picked up the physical aspects of oceanography and undertook at PhD here at Waikato University looking at ways to incorporate high-quality surfing breaks into coastal structures. Shaw is a founder and the Managing Director of ASR Marine Consulting and Research, an owner/Director of an Eco-Resort in Fiji, and an advisory Director of Green Bean Kids. ASR continues to grow, with more than 70% of its projects located overseas, with niche specialization in design and construction of multi-purpose reefs and hydrodynamic numerical modeling. These days he divides his time between his family, his work and the sea; surfing and working in sunny Raglan.

Pete North

Pete is an American who made NZ his home 27 years ago. Spending many years in the new housing industry in Auckland, Pete and his family moved to Hamilton in 1999 to enjoy the fabulous country lifestyle. Pete joined Habitat for Humanity in 2001 and took up his role as CEO in early 2002. His motivation for working with families in need comes from his Christian values. Pete also likes the fact that what Habitat does is provide a Hand Up not a Hand Out.
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Peter Oettli

Originally from Switzerland, Peter Oettli attended high school in Hamilton, university in Auckland and has lived in New Zealand for most of his life. Peter worked at the University of Waikato from lecturer (1966) to Dean of the School of Humanities (1993) before becoming Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) in 1999. He was Chapter Advisor of the University of Waikato Chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society from 2002 until his retirement in 2004. Peter has more recently been frantically working on contract for various government bodies in Wellington, as well as leading several Journey tours for Hamilton travel agents, Calder and Lawson. Peter has written several books and articles on late classical medieval language and literature. He has also has a couple of general books and radio programmes on contemporary New Zealand to his name. Peter’s other interests are sailing, languages and, since February 2005, being a grandfather.
http://www.cnl.co.nz/journey.html

Ken Piddington

After graduating from Auckland University with a degree in modern languages, Ken joined the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later positions included an appointment as the first Deputy Director of the Forum Secretartiat in Fiji and as the Director of the New Zealand Planning Council.
These experiences equipped him for his next appointment as the New Zealand Commissioner for the Environment, held at a time when a new Department of Conservation was being developed. Ken remained as the first Director-General of the Department of Conservation until moving to Washington DC where he was appointed as the first Director of the Environment for the World Bank.
Ken returned to New Zealand as a consultant, working on projects for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank as well as agencies of the United Nations. In recent years, the consultancy work has been linked with University work including teaching, research and environmental management. Ken held the title of Adjunct Professor of University of Waikato for several years, during which he chaired the University’s Environmental Management Working Party.
As an example of his own practical commitment to environmental sustainability, Ken Piddington incorporated a solar PV system to his block of rural land.

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Jane Rawls

As a well respected clinical and child psychologist, Dr Jane Rawls has been an Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Waikato, as well as being Chairperson of the Waikato branch of The New Zealand Psychological Society. She and her husband, Dr Barry Parsonson, visited Georgia in 1996 in order to help with re-establishing professional psychology. Jane spent some time as a Visiting Professor at the State University of Tblisi. In 1998, she and Barry set up the Children of Georgia Project, to help raise awareness of the plight of the orphaned and traumatised children in state institutions, and to assist with the training of Georgian psychologists to deal with these issues locally. Initially Rotorua West Rotary Club was a major organiser of funding, but a separate charitable trust in New Zealand was subsequently set up. The University of Waikato Chapter of Golden Key has assisted with raising funds for these projects.
In addition to her overseas work, Jane has extensive experience with traumatised physically and sexually abused women and children and has developed processes for assisting with their ability to report and deal with their experiences. She is also a forensic psychologist renowned within the Family Court and Criminal Court systems in New Zealand. Jane and Barry currently reside in Napier.

Tamati Reedy

Of Ngāti Porou descent, Professor Tamati Reedy gained his MA in English at Auckland University, and an MA and Doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Hawaii, USA. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Alabama.
Professor Reedy was the Chief Executive and Secretary for the Māori Affairs Department, from 1983 to 1989, and was awarded the 1990 New Zealand Medal. With his wife Tilly, he managed his own consultancy business in education and training in the public and private sector until his appointment at the University of Waikato in 1996 as foundation Dean and Professor of the School of Māori and Pacific Development. Professor Reedy is presently the Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibilities for Māori development at the University of Waikato.
No Ngäti Porou a Tämati Reedy. I whiwhi a Tamati töna honore MA mö te reo Päkeha i te Whare Wänanga o Tamaki Makaurau, me töna MA me te Tohu Kairangi (PhD), arä, töna Takutatanga mo te Wewete Reo, i te Whare Wänanga o Hawaii. I whakawhiwhia ano ia ki te türanga o te Fulbright Scholar i te Whare Wänanga o Alabama i roto o Amerika.
I whiwhi anö a Tamati i te tünga Hekeretari me te Tumuaki o te Tari Maori, mai i 1983 ki 1989. I te tau 1990 i whakawhiwhia ia ki te honore ë kii anei ko te Mëtara Ö Aotearoa, (New Zealand Medal). He mahi umanga tohutohu whakaakoranga tä räua ko tana hoa wahine, a Tilly, a tae noa mai ki te tau 1996 ki te wä i whiwhi ai ia i töna türanga Amokapua me Te Amorangi mo Te Pua Wänanga ki Te Ao i te Whare Wänanga O Waikato. Inaianei, ko ia te Mana Whakahaere mo ngä ähuatanga whakapakari i ngä take Mäori i roto i te Whare Wänanga O Waikato.

Jill Rodgers

Jill Rodgers was born in Balclutha in Southland and spent her teenage years in Tauranga. She began her studies at the University of Waikato University in 1981, studying science and was one of first five students to graduate with a Bachelor of Science (Tech) in biology. Upon graduating Jill was employed at Ruakura AgResearch, which was then known as MAF, working with scientists on out of season sheep breeding. Jill returned to the University of Waikato to study music in 1997 and in 1999 became Alumni Manager at the university, a position she has held for the past 9 years. During that time Jill started a graduate diploma in Management, which she is still studying part time.
During Jill's second week as Alumni Manager in 1999, she met the head of Golden Key International from Sydney and soon after, the Vice-Chancellor's Office established the Waikato Golden Key Chapter on campus. The Golden Key chapter has always experienced good support from the Alumni Office and at the end of 2005 Jill became Advisor to the Waikato Chapter when the Waikato Golden Key Chapter was restructured under the Alumni Office.

Annah Stretton

Annah Stretton began her multi-million dollar fashion business on a Waikato dairy farm in the early 1990s. She turned over her first million within a year and became a leading force in New Zealand-based fashion design. Annah's clothing range is now sold in 30 'Annah S' stores nationwide and in 150 accounts across North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan and Australia.
In 2005 Annah purchased and became editor of 'Her Business Magazine', which is currently New Zealand's fastest growing business title. Annah also owns and edits the bi-annual magazine 'Pink', which supports breast cancer.
Annah is the Chairperson of Fashion Industry New Zealand and was the recipient of the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She is also an active member of the Waikato business scene; mentoring several businesses and acting as a trustee for the 'Waikato Breast Cancer Trust' and the 'True Colours Charitable Trust'.

Rob Waddell

Rob is probably best known for winning a Gold Medal for New Zealand in the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Prior to that, he was Halberg Sportsman of the Year in 1999, following two world single sculls championships. Rob is not only a sportsman but has a Bachelor in Management Studies with first class honours, majoring in marketing and Japanese, from the University of Waikato. After being given the award of Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to rowing in 2001, Rob joined the America’s Cup team as Grinder. Later that year he was made Halberg Sportsman of the Year for the third consecutive year.
Rob is a firm supporter of his wife, Sonia, who has also represented New Zealand at the Olympic games.
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Sara Young

Originally from UK, Sara has lived in several countries before coming to live in New Zealand in 1993. She has been at the University of Waikato since 1996 and involved with the Waikato Chapter of Golden Key since its chartering in October 1999. In recognition of her work with the Chapter, Sara became an Honorary Member in 2001 and was then appointed as a Chapter Advisor in 2002.
She is an active member of local theatre groups and is a keen supporter of the Arts in general. Sara has been involved in several arts committees and, in 2002, was appointed as Secretary to the Te Awa Trust, the group which runs the bi-annual FUEL Festival of New Zealand theatre.

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