Dr John Angus, MNZM, Cromwell.
For services to the State. Dr John Angus was Children’s Commissioner from 2009 to 2011. He has worked in the public sector since 1977, firstly as a social worker for the Department of Social Welfare, and later becoming Principal Advisor in the Ministry of Social Development from 2001 to 2006. He led interdepartmental work on preventing child abuse for the Taskforce on Action on Violence within Families. In 2003 and 2004 he was part of the Ministerial Taskforce on the Community and Voluntary Sector. He was involved in writing the Green Paper for Vulnerable Children. He is a member of the Child, Youth and Family Complaints Panel. Dr Angus is on the board of the Telecom Foundation Rotary New Zealand World Community Service, and the Advisory Committee on Artificial Reproductive Technology.