Mr Robin Campbell, of Invercargill, ONZM for services to farming and governance
Robin Campbell was founding Chair of the Sheep Council, which established the Focus Farm programme, monitoring and lifting sheep productivity. He was inaugural Chair of the Sheep Research Foundation, where representatives from agricultural research, meat and wool industries took responsibility for prioritising the industries’ research needs. He was a Board member of AgResearch and a founding Director of Ovita, which managed funding to increase New Zealand’s sheep production using genomic technologies. He was a founding Director of Sheep Improvement Limited, the national animal performance recording programme. He was Presbyterian Support’s Southland and National Chair. He served 40 years as a Justice of the Peace. Mr Campbell has chaired several other organisations, including Venture Southland, Presbyterian Retirement Villages Limited, Waituna Partners wetland restoration project, and the Community Trust of Southland.