Cassandra Crowley (born 1979or1980 [1] ) is a New Zealand public servant. She is a board member of Waka Kotahi, and was on the Taranaki District Health Board until it was merged into Te Whatu Ora, which she continued being a board member of.
Crowley was born and raised in Kaponga, rural Taranaki. [1] [2] There she went to St Patrick's School, and in New Plymouth she attended Sacred Heart Girls' College, and went on to study law and accountancy at Victoria University. [1] [2]
Crowley is a barrister solicitor and chartered accountant. [2] [1] She was head of compliance of the New Zealand Exchange and was chief executive of Local Government On-line in Wellington until she moved to Taranaki in 2014. [1] She was general manager of Te Korowai o Ngāruahine Trust starting from April 2014 until she left in 2017. Part of her job there was helping Ngāruahine sell to the tourism industry. [3] [1] [4] That year, was president of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand for a year, the youngest person to do so. [1] [4] As of 2018 [update] she is the commercial manager of Te Arawa Management Limited in the Bay of Plenty, and she is a boardmember of Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki. [3] Starting in September 2019, Crowley has been a board member of Waka Kotahi, in the Risk and Assurance Committee and the Investment and Delivery Committee. [2] [5] In early 2020 Crowley became chair of the Taranaki District Health Board. [2] She became chair of Te Whatu Ora (then Health New Zealand) when the district health boards were merged. [6] [7] Around early 2023, Crowley became an independent director of Silver Fern Farms. [8] She has also been on the board of Wild for Taranaki Biodiversity Trust. [2]
In 2017 she won a business scholarship award, which would allow her study at the Columbia Business School in New York City. [1] In 2018 Crowley won award for Inspirational Excellence in the Women in Governance Awards, an award for role models to women. [3]
Crowley has a partner who lives in Wellington as of 2020 [update] . [2]