Kathryn Ryan has been a journalist for 30 years . She spent six years in the Parliamentary press gallery for Radio New Zealand, the last three as RNZ's political editor. She hosts RNZ's mid-morning current affairs and feature interview programme, 'Nine to Noon'.

Professor Boyd Swinburn MBChB, MD, FRACP, FNZCPHM Boyd Swinburn is Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Honorary Professor, Global Centre (GLOBE), Deakin University, Australia. Boyd trained as an endocrinologist and has conducted research in metabolic, clinical and public health aspects of obesity. His major research interests centre on community and policy actions to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity, and reduce, what he has coined, ‘obesogenic’ environments. He leads the INFORMAS initiative (www.informas.org) to monitor and benchmark food environments in over 60 countries. He established WHO’s first Collaborating Centre on Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in 2003, led two Lancet Series on Obesity in 2011 and 2015, was co-chair of World Obesity Policy & Prevention section 2009-2019 and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Obesity 2015-2019. He has been an advisor on many government committees, WHO Consultations, and large scientific studies internationally.

Professor ROBIN GAULD, Ph.D., DCom Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems and Technology Professor, Dunedin School of Medicine and Otago Business School University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Harkness Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Fund of New York Email: robin.gauld@otago.ac.nz ROBIN GAULD was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Commerce) and Dean, Otago Business School, from 2016-23. Under his leadership, Otago Business School became #1 in New Zealand for research, developed innovative new degrees, and increased engagement with industry. Previously, he was Head of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Otago Medical School, where he was based for 20 years following a PhD in public administration from the University of Hong Kong and an academic appointment in public policy at City University of Hong Kong. In 2018, he received a Doctor of Commerce (DCom) from Victoria University of Wellington for research on health care governance. Robin is Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems and Technology which spans the Business School and Health Sciences at Otago. He was 2014 NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor, University of London; a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in 2008-09 at Boston and Harvard universities; Senior Fellow at the Boston University Health Policy Institute from 2009-13; and from 2013-2017, was founding Independent Chair of Alliance South which brought together clinical leaders and managers to focus on ‘whole of system’ approaches to care design in New Zealand’s Southern region. He is on the Advisory Board of the New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation, and the NZ Telehealth Forum. From 2020-22, he was President of the 150-member Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools, and in 2022 was elected as a Director of Business South. For 2024, he is a Visiting Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia School of Business and Economics. Robin has authored 190+ peer-reviewed journal articles, 40+ book chapters and several books including The New Health Policy (Open University Press, 2009) which was awarded First Prize in category at the 2010 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards, and Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-Government, Computer Failure and Information System Development (2006; co-authored) which has been widely-used globally including in key reading lists at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His most recent book is the coedited Health Systems in Developing Counties in Asia (Routledge, 2017). He sits on leading journal boards including Health Policy, Government Information Quarterly, Health Expectations, Journal of Health Organization and Management, and International Journal of Information Management.

Sir Collin Tukuitonga is a Niuean Public Health Medicine Specialist currently Associate Dean Pacific at the University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He is a career public servant with extensive experience in NZ, the Pacific and internationally