George Clark
Professor George Clark, of Auckland, received the Insignia of a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to biochemistry. He has served as head of the Department of Chemistry and as associate dean for Human Resources in the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland. He was a member of the Environmental Risk Management Authority, where he served as deputy chair. He was the chair of Hazardous Substances Standing Committee and the Transfer of Substances Standing Committee, which was instrumental in the implementation of the group standards framework for the management of chemical products in New Zealand. He also oversaw the transfer of more than 100,000 hazardous substances from former legislation into the new Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act.