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Commissioners

Commissioners and Board

The Commission is governed by a board of commissioners who are appointed by the Minister for Social Development. Each appointment is for up to three years with the potential for reappointment. Commissioners work for up to 100 days per year.

Commissioners carry out Board responsibilities in their capacity as Board members. They also:

  • provide expertise, advice and input into issues and work the Commission is considering or undertaking
  • provide the public face of the Commission by connecting with the community (at national, regional and local levels) on a regular basis
  • undertake parts of the Commission’s annual work programme.
     

Meet our commissioners

Carl Davidson

Carl Davidson (Chief Commissioner)

Carl Davidson is one of New Zealand’s most experienced market and social researchers. He brings to the Commission a range of skills acquired from works as a Social Scientist with the DSIR, an academic with Massey University and a market researcher with a range of companies.
James Prescott

James Prescott

James Prescott is a senior lecturer in accounting at AUT and programme leader for the accounting component of the Bachelor of Business degree.

Prior to joining the university, he worked in both the private and public sector as a management accounting, senior financial accountant and financial manager. He has and currently serves on a number of community and government ministerial boards and is a director on a number of small companies..
Christine Rankin

Christine Rankin

Christine Rankin was until recently the Chief Executive of For the Sake of our Children Trust and has her own consultancy business, Rankin and Associates. She is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Work and Income and is a popular public speaker.
Robyn Scott

Robyn Scott

Robyn Scott is the Executive Director of Phlanthropy New Zealand. Robyn joined Philanthropy NZ in 2003 after a varied career including sixteen years as a primary school teacher and more recently managing a small not for profit organisation. She is actively involved with several not for profit organisations and enjoys the variety of work that running a small organisation offers.

Robyn lives in Wellington with her husband and two school-aged children.

 

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