Sally Strang
Crown appointee.
Sally is Environmental
Manager for Hancock
Forest Management
(NZ) Ltd, New Zealand’s
largest plantation forest
management company.
She has a degree in Civil
Engineering and has
worked in environmental
engineering and resource
management roles for 19
years, the last 15 of which
has been in the forestry
and wood processing
sector.
Sally is a forestry
representative on the
Upper Waikato Catchment
Subcommittee and a
member of the Forest
Owners Association
Environment Committee.
She is currently a member
of the reference group
working with Ministry
for the Environment
developing a National
Environmental Standard
for Plantation Forestry.
Sally lives in the South
Waikato where she and
her husband Richard own a
300ha maize cropping and
dry stock farm bordering
the Waikato River near
Arapuni.
Alan Livingston
Crown appointee.
Alan is now in his fourth
term as the Mayor of
Waipa District Council
and in addition has
completed two terms as a
Councillor. He is a Crown
appointee to the Waikato
River Authority and was
a Crown appointee to the
Guardians Establishment
Committee.
For the past 29 years
Alan has been a sheep
and beef farmer at Te
Pahu. He is a life member
of the QEII Trust and a
covenanter of two bush
blocks plus smaller bush
areas which have been
fenced and retired. He is
a former Trustee of the
Maungatautari Ecological
Island Trust with which
he has continuing
involvement.
Alan is also a member
of the Future Proof
Committee and a Trustee
of Sport Waikato.
John Kaati
Iwi appointee.
Born at Kinohaku John has
affiliations with Maniapoto,
Urunumia and others.
John is currently a farmer/
contractor at Kawhia South.
Prior to that he was Mining
Facilities Manager at BHP/
New Zealand Steel’s iron
sands mining facility south
of Kawhia.
John is a trustee of the
Kotahitanga Marae in
Otorohanga. He was a
Waitomo District Councillor
from 1986 to 2004 and a
member of the Steering
Committee to establish
the Maniapoto Maori Trust
Board from 1986 – 1990.
He is currently a Trustee
of Te Motu Island (Kawhia
Harbour), Chairperson of
Hauturu Waipuna Farm
Trust and Chairperson of Te
Riu Rua Land Blocks.
Ko toku Waiora he waimaori
Ko toku wairua ko te
waiwhakarite.
Stephanie O’Sullivan
Iwi appointee.
Stephanie is the Raukawa
representative on the
Waikato River Authority
and was also the Raukawa
representative on the
Guardians Establishment
Committee. Stephanie has
whangai affiliation to Ngati
Ahuru, Raukawa. She was
a Co-Negotiator for the
Raukawa Waikato River Co-
Management negotiations
from 2007-2010, continues
to be involved in Treaty
Settlement negotiations
for Raukawa and has led
the Raukawa Charitable
Trust Environment Group
for the past seven years.
Stephanie is a Resource &
Environmental Planning
graduate of Massey
University and a Kelloggs
Rural Leadership Scholar of
Lincoln University.
In 2006 she was one
of the inaugural NZ
representatives at
the Emerging Pacific
Leaders Dialogue, (a
Commonwealth Study
Conference initiative).
Stephanie is the current
chairperson of the Upper
Waikato Catchment Liaison
Sub-Committee, a member
of the Waikato Regional
Council’s Catchment
Services Committee, and
is involved in a range of
forums and activities in the
Upper Waikato catchment.
Heemi Biddle
Iwi appointee.
Waikato iti, e rere mai na i
nga maunga tapu e tu kau
atu ki te hau Tonga.
Puta atu ki a Waikato Runga,
ka rere ka puta ki te whatu
i te korowai tapu ko Taupo
Moana.
Ara te ia e ū atu ki a
Waikato-nui me tōna kī; ‘He
piko, he taniwha, he piko,
he taniwha’
Anei te mana o te wai.
Heemi is of Ngati
Tuwharetoa descent and
can whakapapa to Ngati
Tahu, Te Arawa, Ngati
Raukawa, Ngai Tuhoe and
other hapuu and iwi of the
Central North Island.
His career has seen him
involved in a number
of industries including
forestry, tunnelling,
security, education,
banking and more recently
geothermal energy
development.
He has a NZ Certificate
in Forestry, Bachelor of
Business Studies degree
majoring in finance and he
has completed professional
governance training in both
Australia and New Zealand.
He is a current member of
the Tuwharetoa Maori Trust
Board and Co-Deputy Chair
of the Tuwharetoa Hapuu
Forum Collective.
Other current involvements
include:
• Tauhara Middle 15 Trust –
• Chairman Tauhara
Mountain Trust
• Opepe Farm Trust
• Rotoaira Forest Trust
• Ngati Tuwharetoa Genesis
Energy Committee.
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2012
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