Jane Taylor (lawyer)

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Jane Taylor
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Chair of New Zealand Post
In office
1 November 2016 –31 October 2018
ProfessionProfessional Director

Jane Taylor is a New Zealand former barrister, chartered accountant and chair of the Board of New Zealand Post. She has held several directorial and board positions across many prominent New Zealand companies.

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Career

Taylor's current appointments include: Board Member at Aotearoa Circle (beginning 2019); [1] Independent Director at Port Otago (beginning 2019); [2] Chair of the Board at Orion Group (beginning 2019); [3] Director at Ontario Teachers Pension Plan New Zealand Forest Investments Limited (beginning 2015); [4] and Independent Director & Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Silver Fern Farms (beginning 2013). [5]

Her previous appointments include: Chair of Predator Free 2050; [6] Director of Hirepool Group and OTTP New Zealand Forest Investments; Deputy Chair of Radio New Zealand; [7] and Chair of Landcare Research New Zealand. [8] She was also a board member of the External Reporting Board (XRB). [9]

Taylor was also a Director at Forestry Corporation of New Zealand Limited (1994 - 1996), GNS Science Limited (2008 - 2014), and the Research and Education Advanced Network Limited (2005 - 2011).

She holds honours degrees in Law from the University of Auckland and a postgraduate qualification in Accountancy, Accounting and Finance from Victoria University of Wellington. She also holds a Bachelor of Forestry Science (Hons) from the University of Canterbury. [10] She is a solicitor of the High Court, a member of the New Zealand Law Society, [11] and a member of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Taylor is a current-resource consent commissioner for the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) having sat on "about 100 hearings panels" [12] since her first panel in 2006.

Controversies

New Zealand Post

In an article published 10 April 2018 in the National Business Review , it was reported that New Zealand Post, on Taylor's watch, was losing its mail delivery volumes faster than predicted. [13] The article was published days after New Zealand Post announced a controversial increase in postage prices. [14] The article also suggested that New Zealand Post was defying the new Labour-led Government by not focusing on providing dividends. [13]

Personal life

Taylor is a fifth-generation New Zealander, brought up in Coromandel, New Zealand. She attended secondary school in Auckland. She moved to Queenstown from Auckland in 2001. [15] Taylor lives in Queenstown with youngest son and her husband, Mark Taylor, whom she married in 1999 in Arrowtown. [16] She has four children; two with ex-husband Garry Muir, and one with current husband Mark Taylor; one of whom is a doctor at Middlemore Hospital, [16] and another of whom is the chief executive officer and founder of TreeTime App, a non-profit tree planting organization. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "Who We Are". The Aotearoa Circle. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Jane Taylor » Port Otago". www.portotago.co.nz. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Our directors » Orion". www.oriongroup.co.nz. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Forest Owner Appoints Two Experienced Directors to Board". www.scoop.co.nz. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Jane Taylor - Director (Independent)". www.silverfernfarms.coop. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Predator Free 2050 Ltd board appointed". www.doc.govt.nz. New Zealand Department of Conservation. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Appointments to Radio New Zealand Board". The Beehive. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Jane Taylor (Chair) | Our board members". www.landcareresearch.co.nz. Landcare Research. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "External Reporting Board Appointment". The Beehive. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  10. ↑ "Our board members | Our people | Landcare Research". www.landcareresearch.co.nz. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "Mrs Jane Taylor : New Zealand Bar Association". www.nzbar.org.nz. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  12. ↑ "Jane's a jack of all trades, master of all". www.scene.co.nz. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  13. 1 2 "NZ Post's mail delivery business falling faster than ever". The National Business Review. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "New Zealand Post confirms postage price to increase". NZ Herald. 27 March 2018. ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  15. ↑ "Meet our board | New Zealand Post". www.nzpost.co.nz. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  16. 1 2 "Talented director builds on skills". Otago Daily Times Online News. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  17. ↑ "Our Team, Our Partners, Our Mission - TreeTime App". treetimeapp.com. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
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