NZAIA CORE GROUP
The Core Group meets on a monthly basis via teleconferencing to discuss and implement NZAIA business.
All Core Group members are volunteers.
All Core Group members are volunteers.
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Richard Morgan - Chair |
Sophal Chhun - Secretary |
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Richard is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, and the current chair of NZAIA. Although he began his career as a biogeographer, investigating human impacts on soil and vegetation systems, he soon developed an interest in impact assessment in the early 1980s, and this became his main research focus following the enactment of the Resource Management Act 1991. Richard’s research addresses issues around improving the quality and effectiveness of IA, both through institutional change and better practice, across all forms of assessment, from ecological to social, cultural, and health, through to strategic environmental assessment and regulatory impact assessment. He has published extensively on impact assessment, including an international textbook. Currently a trainer on IAIA’s online EIA course, Richard has also run training sessions at a number of IAIA conferences, and for SPREP in various countries in Asia-Pacific region, as well as training courses within New Zealand. Richard was President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) in 2003-5.
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Andrew Crosland - Treaurer |
Nick Taylor |
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Keith Finlayson |
Hamish Rennie |
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Keith Finlayson was drawn to impact assessment after undertaking Richard Morgan's Impact Assessment paper for an Environmental Management course at the University of Otago. The paper introduced the impact assessment concept, with particular focus on prior planning or risk avoidance aspects which struck Keith as a particularly powerful concept to improve projects at a crucial early stage. During the paper various complexities were also illustrated including things like meaningful consultation, pressures to develop for job creation, and how to value the environment and the risks / benefits involved.
Being a part of NZAIA allows Keith to work with experts in the field, be involved in challenges of running a volunteer organisation and promoting IA wherever it is applicable for the benefits of the environment and society. Keith currently works as a Land Sustainability Officer at the Southland Regional Council. |
Hamish was involved in his first impact assessment working for Gerald Fitzgerard interviewing recreational users of the upper Clutha as part of the Social Impact Assessment for HEP projects in 1981. Subsequent EIA training and practice as development assistance programme manager for Papua New Guinea with the NZ Ministry for Foreign Affairs, undertaking the Assessment of Environmental Effects for the artificial surf reef at Tay Street, Mount Maunganui, has been augmented through experience as a hearings commissioner and expert planning witness. He has also taught, undertaken and supervised researched on EIA at Waikato and Lincoln Universities. Hamish is a Fellow of the NZ Geographical Society, full member of the NZ Planning Institute and a Certified Practicing Resource Manager with the NZ Association for Resource Management.
He is currently Associate Professor (Planning and Environmental Management) at Lincoln University. Being a member of NZAIA enables him give back to and keep up with IA practice and maintain useful national and international networks. It also adds to credibility as an expert witness. |
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Kate McNab |
Gillian Stewart |
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Kate McNab was drawn to impact assessment after taking Nick Taylor's course at Lincoln University. Kate subsequently entered the planning profession at Mackenzie District Council before moving to Jacobs. Kate champions the use of impact assessment processes in resource management planning. Good impact assessment leads to better decisions and better outcomes for projects, people and the environment.
Kate maintains the website for NZAIA and edits the monthly E-News that gets sent to members. Kate enjoys editing the E-News as a way to stay on top news and research relevant for the impact assessment profession and her role at Jacobs. Kate values the mentorship and mutual learning that takes place between the younger and the more experienced members of NZAIA, and the diverse perspectives within the organisation. |
Dyanna Jolly |
Hannah Staines |
Rajan Chandra Ghosh |
Rachel Teen |
"Silent" core group members
Katherine Russell
Independent consultant
Michael Mackay
Senior social scientist, AgResearch
James Baines
Director, Taylor Baines Associates
Ian Boothroyd
Senior Principal, BoffaMiskell
Rob Greenaway
Director, Rob Greenaway and Associates
Gerard Fitzgerald
Director, Fitzgerald Applied Sociology
Katherine Russell
Independent consultant
Michael Mackay
Senior social scientist, AgResearch
James Baines
Director, Taylor Baines Associates
Ian Boothroyd
Senior Principal, BoffaMiskell
Rob Greenaway
Director, Rob Greenaway and Associates
Gerard Fitzgerald
Director, Fitzgerald Applied Sociology
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