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Dr Roderick Deane
PhD, BCom (Hons), FACA, FCIS, FNZIM, Honorary LLD
Roderick Deane has had an extensive career in business as Chairman and as a Director of a number of major New Zealand and Australian companies and earlier in the public sector and central banking. He has also had a considerable involvement with charitable and cultural organizations. He is currently Chairman of Fletcher Building Limited and the New Zealand Seed Fund. Dr Deane is a Director of the Australian company Woolworths Limited.
He is also Patron and a Life Member of NZ's largest voluntary welfare charitable organization, IHC Inc., having previously been President and a Member of the Board of Governance and is currently Chairman of the IHC Foundation.
Until June 2006, when he retired from each of these positions, Dr Deane was Chairman of Telecom Corporation of NZ Limited, ANZ National Bank Limited, Te Papa Tongarewa (the Museum of New Zealand), and the City Gallery Wellington Foundation. He was also a Director of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited for 12 years until June 2006 and until March 2007 a Member of the Board of Trustees of MOTU (Economic and Public Policy Research).
In the past Dr Deane has been involved in the executive branch of Government, as Chairman of the State Services Commission, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (and previously Chief Economist of the Bank), and an Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. He was Chief Executive of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Limited from 1987 to October 1992 and then until 1999, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Telecom Corporation of NZ Limited.
He has also been Professor of Economics and Management at Victoria University of Wellington, a Director of TransAlta Corporation Limited in Canada, Chairman of the Mayoral Business Advisory Group in Wellington, and a member of the Prime Minister's Enterprise Council.
Dr Deane has received various awards including an Honorary Doctorate by Victoria University of Wellington; is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, the NZ Society of Accountants and the NZ Institute of Management; an inaugural Distinguished Fellow of the NZ Association of Economists and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Centre for Independent Studies; has been Executive of the Year, Executive of the Decade, and Chairman of the Year in the NZ Management Top 200 Awards; and was the inaugural Economist of the Year in the NZIER Awards.