Gurshon Fisher

Gurshon Fisher, of Auckland, received the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to philanthropy.   In 2004, he established the Gus Fisher Postdoctoral Fellowship to specialise in the research of Neurodegenerative diseases and a cure for Parkinson's disease.  He set up the Gus Fisher Gallery in 2000 to encourage debate on contemporary visual arts and culture and foster creative and academic research in visual arts.  He was involved with the establishment of the Kenneth Myers Centre and the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Auckland.  He has also made significant donations to and number of organisations, including the Auckland War Memorial Museum and community drug education and rehabilitation programmes.  Mr Fisher was a founding donor of the Hood Fund, which enables leading New Zealand academics to share their research overseas