Our People

Directors

Morrie Love
Te Atiawa

Morrie has a Bachelor of Engineering (Agricultural). He has been involved in Maori resource management for many years. He has managed the Maori Secretariat (Maruwhenua) in the Ministry for the Environment and served as a director of the Waitangi Tribunal. He is currently Managing Director of Raukura Consultants based in Wellington.

 

 

 

Prue Kapua
Te Arawa

Prue Kapua is a principal in her legal fi rm Tamatekapua Law based in Auckland and specialising in resource management, Treaty of Waitangi issues, race relations, human rights and medico legal litigation. She worked for the Deputy Prime Ministers offi ce from 1988 -1989 and was the Chief Investigation Offi cer for the Race Relations Offi ce from 1983 -1988. She has served as a member of the Environmental Risk Management Authority and is on the board for the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution.

 

Ngahiwi Tomoana
Ngati Kahungunu

Ngahiwi Tomoana is the chairman of Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated (NKII). He has played an important role through the Treaty Tribes Coalition in the discussions over the development of the allocation method, has taken a lead in promoting Maori aquaculture for the wider Maori community and his iwi, and organised the first Maori Fisheries Conference, in 2006, in Napier.

He has worked for the protection and enhancement of eel habitats both locally and nationally. Ngahiwi has served NKII for the last 10 years and is now the chairman.

 

Maria Bargh – Alternate Director
Te Arawa, Ngati Awa

Maria is a lecturer in Maori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.  She is editor of Resistance: an Indigenous Response to Neoliberalism and has a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University.  After completing her PhD she worked for Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi in Whakatane.  She currently serves on the Huia Publishers Advisory Board, and previously served on the Board of the Development Resource Centre.  Her current research, on indigenous corporations involved in the energy sector in Aotearoa and Canada, is funded by a Marsden Fast Start Grant.