Mr Bill Kermode, of Auckland, MNZM for services to governance and philanthropy
Mr Bill Kermode was Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the NEXT Foundation, a strategic philanthropic fund with a 10-year planned life, leading and implementing numerous large-scale environmental and educational projects. He was co-founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy. He was involved in environmental projects including the Taranaki Mounga Project, Predator Free Wellington and Predator Free South Westland. He worked with the Department of Conservation to help establish the research entity Zero Invasive Predators. Mr Kermode played a key role in NEXT’s support of numerous educational projects, including Manaiakalani, which targets educational inequality in schools, and Springboard Trust, which develops school principals’ strategic leadership skills.