Career
Achmad worked in child advocacy for the Human Rights Commission, World Vision in Melbourne, UNICEF, and Barnardo's Aotearoa. [3] [6]
Achmad is a member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation's Leadership Network. [3] [7] In 2007 Achmad was named CLANZ-Bell Gully Young Corporate Lawyer of the Year. [8] The University of Auckland included Achmad in their '40 under 40' profiles of young alumni "who continue to shine in both their professional and personal lives". [9]
Achmad was chief executive of the collective organisation Social Service Providers Te Pai Ora o Aotearoa from 2021 to 2023. [10] In November 2023 she was appointed to a five year term to lead the Children and Young People's Commission (Mana Mokopuna), which had previously been the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. She replaced Judge Frances Eivers, who returned to the bench. [11] [10] She had been Deputy Children's Commissioner since July 2023. [12] As Commissioner Achmad has expressed concerns about government plans to run military-style bootcamps for young offenders. [13]
In late June 2025, the Sixth National Government passed legislation abolishing the Children and Young People's Commission and reinstating the single Children's Commissioner, effective 1 August 2025. Under the new framework, Achmad remained as Children's Commissioner for at least one year. [14] On 14 August, Achmad called for Gloriavale Christian Community's private school to be shut down after the school failed two consecutive Education Review Office reports. She said:
I'm hugely concerned to see yet another report from ERO outlining a very troubling situation at the Gloriavale school. This is now clear-cut. I'm calling for the school to be closed. I have zero confidence about children's physical and emotional safety and well-being at the school. [15]
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