Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 7 October
12:00
Location
St Andrews on the Terrace
Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond and Emeritus Professor Jonathan Boston
Inspired by Dame Anne’s article ‘How to split a society’ and Jonathan Boston’s recent presentation to U3A on threats to democracy, St Andrew’s on The Terrace and the Wellington Ephesus Group invite you to join them for what promises to be a fascinating exchange of ideas between two of our leading public thinkers.
Entry free but koha welcome.
Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond
Dame Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor in Maori Studies and Anthropology, and a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Equal Opportunity) at the University of Auckland. She has written a series of prize-winning books about Maori life, European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific. She served as Chair of the NZ Historic Places Trust, and has written a number of submissions on Te Tiriti o Waitangi for the Waitangi Tribunal.
In 2013 Dame Anne won the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top scientific award, and became the New Zealander of the Year. She is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the US, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2021 she was awarded the Order of New Zealand.
Emeritus Professor Jonathan Boston
Jonathan Boston, ONZM, is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington.
His research interests include: climate change policy (both mitigation and adaptation); child poverty; governance (especially anticipatory governance); public management; tertiary education funding (especially research funding); and welfare state design.
He has served as the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies and the Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. In the early 2000’s he was a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Committee and helped design and implement the Performance-Based Research Fund in New Zealand’s tertiary education sector. During 2012-13 he co-chaired the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty in New Zealand, and during 2022-23 he served as a member of the Expect Working Group on Managed Retreat.
Recent books and major reports include: Child Poverty in New Zealand (with Simon Chapple) (2014); Governing for the Future: Designing Democratic Institutions for a Better Tomorrow (2017); Safeguarding the Future: Governing in an Uncertain World (2017); Foresight, Insight, and Oversight: Enhancing Long-Term Governance through Better Parliamentary Scrutiny (with David Bagnall and Anna Barry) (2019); and A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change (2024). He has served since 2005 as the editor of Policy Quarterly.