Mrs Julie Pearse, of Dunedin, MNZM for services to governance and the community
Julie Pearse was instrumental in establishing the Otago Farmers Market, serving on the Board and helping it to become a blueprint for similar markets across New Zealand. She chairs the Board of the Methodist Mission Southern, where she led an extensive change-management programme, introduced a focus on intervention logic modelling, and oversaw development of initiatives aimed at education, homelessness and poverty. She provided her governance expertise and strategic insights to the Board of the Tūhara Otago Museum, having earlier invigorated the Friends of the Otago Museum organisation. Mrs Pearse initiated the annual HD Skinner Memorial Lecture series, which focuses on anthropological research and advances in the Pacific region.