Manuka Henare
Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti Kahu of Muriwhenua
Associate Professor & Director, Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development, The University of Auckland Business School
Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti Kahu of Muriwhenua
Associate Professor & Director, Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development, The University of Auckland Business School
Mānuka joined the University of Auckland Business School in 1996. He is Associate Professor in Māori Business Development in the Department of Management and International Business and recently completed (December 2014) a twelve year term as Associate Dean (Māori and Pacific Development). Mānuka is also the foundation Director of the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development and leads a number of multidisciplinary research project teams. He is board member of the University of Auckland, Centre of Development Studies, and the Centre of Pacific Studies. He was until 2013 the Academic Coordinator of Te Tohu Huanga Māori Graduate Programme in Business Development within the Graduate School of Management and teaches Māori business and economic history, strategy, and management of tribal enterprises. Mānuka completed a seven year term as government appointee to the Council of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, NZ's largest tertiary institution, and a five year term as Council member of the Manukau Institute of Technology (May 2015). In 2014 he was appointed a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand Humanities and Social Science Advisory Panel. He is, since 1999, a Visiting Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, UK, and in 2015 did further research and study leave in Cambridge. He has advised New Zealand government departments, local authorities and other institutions on ambicultural or bicultural governance and management policies and also served on government advisory committees on development assistance, peace and disarmament, archives, history, social policy, environmental risk management and number of other ministerial appointments. He was previously a lecturer in Māori studies at Victoria University of Wellington, where he taught courses on the Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi, Māori culture and society and tribal histories. He also lectured in the Masters of Development Studies on culture, religion and economic development. Prior to his university career (his third career), he was CEO of two national non-government organisations involved in international development, justice and peace, and has travelled extensively throughout Asia, the Pacific and Southern Africa.