Alan Esmond Bollard is a New Zealand economist. He currently serves as the as chair of the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat for the period of 2013–2018,and as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for the period of 2002–2012.
Dame Evelyn Mary Stokes was a professor of geography at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a member of the New Zealand government's Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout her life she worked for recognition of marginalised groups including women and Māori,and she published extensively on New Zealand historical geography and on Māori land issues.
Michael Adrian Peters is a New Zealand education academic. He is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
James Te Wharehuia Milroy was a New Zealand academic and expert in the Māori language. He was of Ngāi Tūhoe descent. Together with Tīmoti Kāretu and Pou Temara,Milroy was a lecturer at Te Panekiretanga o te Reo,which the three professors founded in 2004.
Christine Coe Winterbourn is Professor of Pathology at the University of Otago,in New Zealand.
Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith was a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton,New Zealand and is now at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. The daughter of Sidney Moko Mead,she affiliates to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi.
Marston Donald Edward Conder is a New Zealand mathematician,a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Auckland University,and the former co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. His main research interests are in combinatorial group theory,graph theory,and their connections with each other.
Philippa Lynne Howden-Chapman is a professor of public health at the University of Otago,Wellington,and the director of the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori cultural issues and a lesbian activist. In 1972,she was famously denied a visa to visit the United States on the basis of her sexuality.
Dame Alcyion Cynthia Kiro is a New Zealand public health academic,administrator,and advocate,who has served as the 22nd governor-general of New Zealand since 21 October 2021. Kiro is the first Māori woman,the third person of Māori descent,and the fourth woman to hold the office.
Graham Hingangaroa Smith is a New Zealand Māori academic and educationalist of Ngāti Porou,Ngāi Tahu,Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Kahungunu descent. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Philippa Margaret Black is a New Zealand academic specialising in geology,specifically mineralogy and metamorphic petrology.
Margaret Ellen Fairbairn-Dunlop is a Samoan-New Zealand academic. She is the first person in New Zealand to hold a chair in Pacific studies.
Jane Ritchie is a New Zealand psychology academic and expert of child-raising. She is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Waikato. She was the first woman to graduate with a PhD in psychology from a New Zealand university.
Margaret Ann Carr is a New Zealand education academic. She is currently emeritus professor at the University of Waikato.
Ngapare Kaihina Hopa is a Māori academic of Waikato Tainui descent.
Sir Tīmoti Samuel Kāretu is a New Zealand academic of Māori language and performing arts,and affiliates to Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu. He served as the inaugural head of the Department of Māori at the University of Waikato,and rose to the rank of professor. He was the first Māori language commissioner,between 1987 and 1999,and then was executive director of Te Kohanga Reo National Trust from 1993 until 2003. In 2003,he was closely involved in the foundation of Te Panekiretanga o te Reo,the Institute of Excellence in Māori Language,and served as its executive director.
Manying Ip,known as Bess Ip,is a social historian and emeritus professor in Auckland,New Zealand,who has published on the identity of Chinese New Zealanders.
Lynnette Robin Ferguson is a New Zealand academic,and as of 2021 is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland. Ferguson has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2016.
David Ian Pool was a New Zealand demographer. He was the inaugural director of the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato from 1980 to 2004,and was made a professor emeritus when he retired from the university in 2010.
