Dame Malvina Lorraine Major is a New Zealand opera soprano.
Sir Stephen Robert Tindall is the founder of New Zealand retailer The Warehouse,The Warehouse Group,and the Tindall Foundation.
John Henry Whitehead is a New Zealand economist. He served as Secretary of the Treasury between April 2003 and May 2011. He has been chancellor and board chair of St John New Zealand since June 2020.
Dame Margaret Kerslake Shields was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She had three terms in the House of Representatives in the 1980s and was afterwards a member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council,including as chairman.
Dame Margaret Clara Bazley is a New Zealand public servant. She began her career as a psychiatric nurse and rose through the ranks to senior leadership positions at psychiatric hospitals and district health boards. In 1978 she became the Director of Nursing at the Department of Health,the chief nursing position in New Zealand and at that time the most senior position in the public service held by a woman,and in 1984 became the first female State Services Commissioner. She subsequently held top positions at the Department of Transport and the Department of Social Welfare.
Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter was a New Zealand public and international lawyer. She advised a number of small island states on the drafting of their constitutional documents.
Suzanne Helen Suckling is a businesswoman and commercial director from New Zealand.
Dame Linda Jane Holloway is a Scottish-born New Zealand anatomical pathologist academic,and was a full professor at the University of Otago.
Dame Julie Claire Molloy Christie is a New Zealand businesswoman and television producer. She is the founder and former CEO of international television company Touchdown Productions,acquired by Dutch media company Eyeworks in 2006,and then later sold to Warner Bros.
Dame Peggy Gwendoline Koopman-Boyden is a New Zealand gerontologist. A professor of social gerontology at the University of Waikato,she was accorded the title of professor emeritus when she retired in 2016.
Dame Alison Mary Roxburgh was a New Zealand women's rights advocate and community leader.
Dame Karen Olive Poutasi is a New Zealand government official.
Suzanne Lee Snively is an American company director and economic strategist in New Zealand.
Lynette Merle Stewart is a New Zealand executive specialising in governance of health organisations.
Dame Patricia Mary Harrison is a New Zealand educationalist.
Dame Alison Mae Paterson is a New Zealand businesswoman. In 1979,she became the first woman to sit on the board of a publicly listed company in New Zealand.
Dame Deirdre Glenna Milne is a New Zealand feminist active from the 1970s and a retired lawyer.
Dame Judith Anne Kilpatrick is a retired New Zealand nursing academic. After serving as head of the nursing school at the Auckland Institute of Technology,she moved to the University of Auckland,where she co-founded the School of Nursing in 1999.
Sir Henricus Wilhelmus van der Heyden is a New Zealand dairy farmer,business executive and company director. He was chair of Fonterra from 2002 to 2012.
Dame Jo Anne Brosnahan is a New Zealand company director and leadership adviser,and former regional government executive. She served as chief executive of Northland Regional Council for five years from 1991,followed by eight years as chief executive of Auckland Regional Council. In 2005,Brosnahan was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services,and in 2023 she was appointed Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit,for services to services to governance and business.
