Education New Zealand
17 June 2022
Manapou ki te Ao
Level 5, Lambton House
160 Lambton Quay
PO Box 12041
John Luke
Wellington 6144
New Zealand
[FYI request #19237 email]
P: +64 4 472 0788
E: [email address]
Dear John,
www.enz.govt.nz
www.studyinnewzealand.govt.nz
Official Information Act 1982 request – North American Advisory
Board
I refer to your official information act request (OIA), received by Education New
Zealand (ENZ) on
29 April 2022. We have addressed each of your questions
separately below.
1. Can you please supply the full list of name and bio for this
committee's membership.
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Please find attached the list of board members and their biographies as
‘Appendix A’. More information about the Board is publicly available
here – New advisory board to support our North American strategy »
Education NZ (enz.govt.nz)
2. Also, the selection process and how your advertise the role to the
public or target group.
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ENZ advertised for the North American Advisory Board membership by
sending an email to ‘Section on United States Students-List’. SECUSS-
L is a free electronic mailing list for international education
professionals in the United States of America (USA). Another email
was sent directly to a managed list of 459 contacts, comprised of
people ENZ representatives have met through conferences and
campus visits. These contacts have been accumulated over the six
years ENZ has been operating out of the USA. ENZ shared the role
with these individuals as potential candidates, and encouraged them to
share the opportunity with anyone they may know who might be
interested.
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A panel comprising ENZ staff from across the organisation met to
select panel members. ENZ staff were looking to ensure diversity
through a wide geographic spread across North America, range of
experience, and coverage of various specialities including study abroad
and exchange, student experience, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and
institution type.
3. The full meeting minutes for this group since the establishment to
date
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This group is a voluntary advisory board with no decision-making
powers. No formal meeting minutes have been/are recorded. However,
please find attached meeting agenda and notes from the two meetings
that have taken place as ‘Appendix B’.
In preparing this information release ENZ has considered the public interest
considerations in section 9(1) of the Official Information Act. You have the right
to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Education New Zealand
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
Manapou ki te Ao
Level 5, Lambton House
https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/ or freephone 0800 802 602.
160 Lambton Quay
PO Box 12041
Please note that it is our policy to proactively release our responses to official
Wellington 6144
New Zealand
information requests, where possible. We do not publish requesters’ personal
information. We will let you know when we respond to your request if we intend
P: +64 4 472 0788
E: [email address]
to publish it. Please contact us if you have any questions about this.
www.enz.govt.nz
www.studyinnewzealand.govt.nz
Yours sincerely
Di Solomon
Director, Government and Stakeholders Relations
