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March, 2022
Front row left to right: Mary Major (former Executive Director),  Raynor Asher (Chair), Liz Brown (former Council member)
Middle row: Jonathan MacKenzie, Reina Vaai, Katrina Bennett, Hank Schouten, Marie Shroff
Back row: Margot Chandler (Executive Director), Alison Thom, Jo Cribb, Tim Watkin, Richard Pamatatau
Absent: Rosemary Barraclough, Ben France-Hudson and Judi Jones



Raynor Asher

Independent Chair, QC, Retired Judge of the Court of Appeal, Auckland

Ben France-Hudson

Senior Lecturer in property law, University of Otago, Dunedin.

Katrina Bennett

Chief Reporter, NZME Wellington Bureau (Alternate industry member)

Rosemary Barraclough

Journalist, Auckland. Nominee of the Magazine Publishers' Association

Hank Schouten

Journalist Representative.

Jo Cribb

Independent Consultant, Wellington

Marie Shroff

Independent Consultant and Chair, Electoral Commission, Wellington

Jonathan MacKenzie

Editor of the Waikato region of Stuff, Hamilton

Richard Pamatatau

Programme Leader at AUT, Auckland (Alternative public member)

Judi Jones

Consultant, Wellington 

Tim Watkin

Journalist, Auckland

Reina Vaai

Lawyer, Auckland

Scott Inglis

Regional Editor for Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post, Tauranga

Alison Thom

Principal advisor at Ministry of Business, Wellington (Alternative public member)

Margot Chandler

Executive Director, Wellington

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