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Patrick Snedden began his professional life in publishing after graduating from Auckland University in accounting, economics and anthropology. He has been self-employed since 1984 and until early 2008 acted as a business adviser for Health Care Aotearoa, a primary care network of Maori, Pacific Island and community groups within the not-for-profit health sector. Since 1982 he has worked as an economic adviser to the Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board and he is part of their Treaty negotiation team.
In 2008 he was appointed Chief Crown Negotiator in the Ngati Kahu and Muriwhenua treaty claims for the Far North region. This claim reached Agreement in Principle in January 2010 after 23 years of process.
For many years he has been a corporate director and was a founding director of Mai FM, this country’s first Maori commercial radio station. He has chaired the Housing New Zealand Corporation; the Tamaki Transformation Board; the Auckland District Health Board along with the Quality Improvement Committee responsible for quality and safety in the health system. He has also been a director on Watercare Services.
He was recently appointed Director to the Ports of Auckland.
In 2006 his book, Pakeha and the Treaty, Why it’s our Treaty too won first prize in the first author, non-fiction section at the Montana Book Awards.
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