TE PŪNAHA MATATINI - Key Persons


Adrian McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Aisling Rayne

Job Titles:
  • Immediate past Chair
  • Principal Investigator

Alex James

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Alex Macmillan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Anjuli Muller - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman, Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau

Ann Brower

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Anna Brown

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Anna Matheson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Anna Santure

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Cameron Walker

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Cate Macinnis-Ng

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Catriona MacLeod

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Christina Painting

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Claire Postlethwaite

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Céline Cattoën-Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Dan Hikuroa

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Daniel Stouffer

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

David Aguirre

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

David Hall

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

David Hayman

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Dianne Sika-Paotonu

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Dion O'Neale

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Investigator Representative

Emily Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Emma Sharp

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Fraser Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Gillian Gibb

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Gina Grimshaw

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Grace Villamor

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Graham Donovan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Hamza Ajmal

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Hiran Thabrew

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Hitaua Arahanga-Doyle


Holly Thorpe

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Investigator Representative

Ilze Ziedins

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Inga Smith

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Isabel Castro

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Jeanette McLeod

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Jesse Whitehead

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Jillian Menezes

Job Titles:
  • Research Operations Coordinator

Jo Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Jodie Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Investigator Representative

Jonathan Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Marketing Senior Adviser

Jonathan Tonkin

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Julia Talbot-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Justin Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Kathryn Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Research Operations Manager

Kelly Blincoe

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Keoni Mahelona

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer, Te Hiku Media

Kirsten Locke

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Kristin Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer

Krushil Watene


Kyle Higham

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Leilani Walker

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Libby Liggins

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Lisa Pilkington

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Lynn Riggs

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Mairéad de Róiste

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Marama Muru-Lanning

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Marcus Frean

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Mark Gahegan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Markus Luczak-Roesch

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Principal Investigator

Matiu Prebble

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Matt Pinkerton

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Matthew Parry

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Mckayla Holloway

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Melinda Allen

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Michael Miller

Job Titles:
  • Vice - Chair

Michael O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director

Michael Small

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mike Plank

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Mubashir Qasim

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Murray Cox

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Māui Hudson


Nick Golledge

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Nirmal Nair

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Nkiru Ede - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer

Pauline Donougher

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Operations Coordinator

Pauline Harris

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Peni Fukofuka

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Pete Russell

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Phil Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Pierre Roudier

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Pieta Brown

Job Titles:
  • Product Director - Intelligence, Orion Health

Priscilla Wehi

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Director

Priya Subramanian

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Quentin Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Rachelle Binny

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Rebecca Phillipps

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Rebecca Priestley

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Rhema Vaithianathan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Rhian Salmon

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Richard Aitken

Job Titles:
  • Consulting Engineer ( Retired ) & Te Pūnaha Matatini Advisory Board Chair

Richard Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Sandra Velarde

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Sereana Naepi

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Shaun Hendy

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Simon Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Siouxsie Wiles

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Steffen Lippert

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Stephen Marsland

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Tammy Steeves

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Te Rerekohu Tuterangiwhiu


Tom Etherington

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Tom Roa

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Tom Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato) is a Tainui leader and Te Ahorangi Professor in Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Studies, at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato the University of Waikato. Tom is a familiar figure on marae throughout Tainui and the country. His PhD examined questions about the theory and practices of Māori to English language translation and interpretation. Over the years, Tom has been a leading figure helping to bring the Māori language into the mainstream, and he is one of the founders of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori movement in the 1970s.

Troy Baisden

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Uli Zuelicke

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

William Godsoe

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Zac McIvor

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Zainab Rizvi

Job Titles:
  • Secretary