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Ahorangi Juliet Gerrard FRSNZ HonFRSC

Kaitohutohu Mātanga Pūtaiao Matua ki te Pirimia

I roto a Juliet i te tūranga Kaitohutohu Mātanga Pūtaiao Matua mai i te Hongongoi 2018. Ko te matakitenga a Juliet mō te tūranga i takea mai i ngā huanga e whā: pākaha, ngākau tuwhera, pūrangiaho, ā, kia wātea ki te tokomaha.  Ko tāna e whai ana kia tūhonoa e ia te pūtaiao, te iwi whānui me te kāwanatanga i runga i te pono.

He Ahorangi hoki a Juliet i Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau. Ko tōna rangahau pūmātauranga kei roto i te matūkoiora pūmua, e tūhura ana i ngā pāhekohekotanga pūmua-pūmua me ngā rangahau ka whakamahia i roto i te ahumahi kai.

Kelly Gray

Kaiāwhina Matua

Kelly joins the PMCSA team with an extensive background in providing administrative support to senior leadership across a number of sectors within Government. Kelly graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Health Science from the University of Auckland and worked at Auckland District Health Board for several years. She has affiliation to Ngati Porou, Uawa, Hauiti, Tainui, Kawhia, and Nga Ruahine, Kaupokanui. Kelly is the great-granddaughter of Te Pope who was the first inspector of Native Schools and published the book Health for the Maori: A Manual for Use in Native Schools in 1884.

Tākuta Susie Meade

Kaitohutohu Matua

Susie is the Principal Advisor to Juliet Gerrard. Susie’s role also supports the Forum of Chief Science Advisors. She has a rural background, having been bought up on a sheep and beef farm in rural Nelson. Susie completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Canterbury. She has over 20 years’ experience in the Aotearoa New Zealand science system as a researcher and in science management. Immediately prior to joining the team, Susie was the manager of a Centre of Research Excellence, QuakeCoRE. Susie will be spending time in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Tākuta George Slim

Mātanga

George provides policy advice to the PMSCA and maintains a presence in Wellington for the office.

George is a consultant with Rhadegund Life Sciences ltd working with organisations to provide policy advice, access to science knowledge, assist with funding sources, and consulting on strategy in the management of research and intellectual property.

George has over 30 years’ experience in the science system in New Zealand and offshore. He has worked in academia, the government research sector and government. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Otago then left for work in the United Kingdom, at the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory for Molecular Biology. He returned to New Zealand as a researcher at the Crown Research Institute, Industrial Research Ltd, where he stayed for eleven years. Since then he has been with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Ministry of Research Science and Technology before starting Rhadegund Life Sciences. As a consultant he has had major contracts with companies, universities, government agencies, Crown Research Institutes, and industry organisations, including NZBio and Science New Zealand.

He is fluent in Academic, Bureaucrat and Commercial, and an able translator between them.

Celia Cunningham

Kaitātari rangahau me te kaituhi

Celia is a research analyst and writer. Prior to joining the office, she spent six years in risk management consulting, with a focus on high-consequence safety risks. Celia has also worked as a policy analyst for the Ministry for Primary Industries, considering issues such as food fortification, usage of agricultural compounds, and food safety. Celia undertook her undergraduate degrees in biological sciences, philosophy and English literature at the University of Auckland. She also completed a research scholarship at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University and has undertaken scientific internships in government and private sectors.

Ellen Rykers

Kaitātari rangahau me te kaituhi

Ellen is a research analyst and writer. An award-winning science journalist, her work has appeared in National Geographic, New Zealand Geographic and North & South, among other publications. Ellen completed her undergraduate degree in chemistry at the Australian National University. She went on to study a Master of Science Communication at the University of Otago. Prior to joining the team, she worked in the Communications and Outreach team at the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra.