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The Centre for Social Innovation’s Founder and
Chief Executive is
Justine Munro.

The Centre is governed by a small working board of Trustees, with guidance and strategic advice provided by advisory boards comprising senior leaders.

Centre for Social Innovation Advisory Board

Patrick Snedden (Chair)

Pat has for many years been a corporate director and was a founding director of Mai FM, this country’s first Maori commercial radio station. He now has roles in public sector governance. Currently he chairs the Housing New Zealand Corporation and the Auckland District Health Board along with the Quality Improvement Committee responsible for quality and safety in hospitals. He is also a director on Watercare Services, a wastewater and water company for Auckland.

Pat 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.

Pakeha and the Treaty, Why it’s our Treaty too won first prize in the first author, non-fiction section at the 2007 Montana Book Awards.

Geraint Martin

Geraint Martin has served as Chief Executive Officer of Counties Manukau DHB since December 2006. CMDHB is one of the largest District Health Boards in New Zealand and services a population of over 450,000 with a high level of deprivation, diverse ethnic mix and young population. A major achievement for CMDHB is the recently completed Health Services Plan, a 20 year framework for all health services in the district.

Previously Geraint was Director of Health and Social Care Strategy for the Welsh Assembly Government. He has significant experience, where he authored a radical ten year strategy that is driving a total re-configuration of Welsh health and social care. Geraint has more than twenty years experience in health management. As a hospital chief executive, he developed the ‘see and treat’ system which has improved emergency department efficiency and has been adopted by the National Health Service and internationally. He has also worked closely with clinicians in improving clinical standards and improving patient safety. His work with primary care has included chronic disease management strategies and managing acute care to reduce the need for in-patient beds.

Len Cook

Leonard Warren “Len” Cook, CBE, is a professional statistician who was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1992 to 2000 and National Statistician and Director of the Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom, and Registrar General of England and Wales from 2000 to 2005.

In New Zealand, he was a member of the secretariat of the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Task Force on Tax Reform in 1981/82 and a member of the Royal Commission on Social Policy in New Zealand in 1987/88.

In the UK he led the creation and publication of the National Statistics Code of Practice. Probably his most publicised act in his time in the United Kingdom came in February 2005, when as Registrar General he had to rule on the legality of the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan has been director of the Young Foundation since late 2004.

Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos, He has also been Chief Adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a lecturer in telecommunications; an investment executive; and a reporter on BBC TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University, a board member of the Work Foundation, the Health Innovation Council and the Design Council, and chair of Involve. He is chairing a Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland. He is also a part-time adviser to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Australia. His most recent book is ‘The Art of Public Strategy: mobilising power and knowledge for the common good’ (Oxford University Press, 2009). Other books include Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (Penguin, 2006) and Connexity (Vintage and Harvard Business Press, 1998).

Chris Quin

Chris Quin is Chief Executive Officer at Gen-i, responsible for leading a team of 3,300 people at one of Australasia’s fastest-growing, innovative ICT services providers. Under his leadership, Gen-i is transforming the delivery and support of integrated IT and telecommunications solutions to organisations across New Zealand and Australia.

Chris managed the merger of Gen-i, Telecom Advanced Solutions and Computerland in 2004. He had previously established Telecom Advanced Solutions as New Zealand’s leading ICT services group, achieving year-on-year business growth and expansion into Australia.

Before joining Telecom in 1991, Chris was CFO for Mitel and Financial Accountant at Orica (formerly ICI). He took up his current role in 2004.

Geoff Hunt

Geoff Hunt (ME, FIPENZ, MIET) is Chief Executive Officer of Kordia Group. He joined the business in 2005, and has led the company through its recent changes, and transformation into Kordia - now one of the region’s leading technology services businesses providing broadcast and telecommunications solutions and specialised networks.

Geoff has spent the past 19 years in leadership roles building high performance maintenance and construction companies operating in the electricity, rail and telecommunication sectors in New Zealand and Australia.

Working Board

Maria Clarke
Principal, Maria Clarke Lawyers – Chair

Faye Langdon
Director, Langdon Consulting – Trustee

Baruch Ter Wal
Director, Lee Ter Wal Design – Trustee

Justine Munro
Chief Executive, Centre for Social Innovation – Trustee

Social Innovation Camp Advisory Board

• Janet Mazenier
• Nat Torkington
• Brenda Wallace, Catalyst IT
• Adele Barlow and Pamela Minnett, Founders, ymedia
• Chris Daish, Catalyst IT
• Patrick MacFie, Founder, Start-UP Media
• Nathalie Hofsteede, Founder, Givealittle

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