Housekeeping & Welcome
Thursday, March 7, 2024 |
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM |
Aquamarine Ballroom, 1st Floor |
Speaker
Miriama Kamo
Conference MC
Housekeeping & welcome
8:40 AM - 8:50 AMBiography
Miriama Kamo (Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Mutunga) is an award winning broadcaster, writer, speaker, and environmental advocate.
Miriama is the host of TV1’s flagship current affairs programme Sunday, and of Māori current affairs programme Marae.
Miriama is the Patron/Te Koruru of the NZer of the Year Awards. Since her appointment she’s been establishing an alumni network, a partnership model honouring te Tiriti (the Treaty of Waitangi) in the awards, and a pastoral care model for winners.
Miriama is passionate about supporting Māori practitioners in broadcast journalism and runs a mentoring scheme called Whaitiri Mentoring for young journalists of Māori descent.
Tim Grafton
Chief Executive
Insurance Council of New Zealand Te Kāhui Inihua o Aotearoa
Welcome from ICNZ
8:50 AM - 9:00 AMBiography
Tim Grafton became Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand Te Kāhui Inihua o Aotearoa (ICNZ) in November 2012 and a member of the executive board of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations. Tim has extensive experience in providing strategic, policy and communications advice to public and private sector leaders and was an adviser to former Prime Ministers and Ministers of Finance as well as leading private companies. Prior to ICNZ, Tim was an executive director of a leading market research company.
Among several governance roles, Tim is the former Chair of the Representative Users Group of the Deep South Science Challenge which focuses on research to adapt to climate change.