Mrs Anne Hawker, of Wellington, ONZM, for services to people with disabilities
Anne Hawker was President of Rehabilitation International, chaired its Social Commission, and played a leading role in its work towards the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She was President of the Disabled Persons Assembly New Zealand, Treasurer of the New Zealand Rehabilitation Association and the Disability Information Service, New Zealand representative to the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Society, and CEO of the Head Injury Society. She is Principal Disability Advisory for MSD, where she singlehandedly implemented the ‘Lead Toolkit: A guide for employing disabled people’. She has been instrumental in establishing the ‘We Enable Us’ network, providing leadership on effective and inclusive employment of disabled people in the public sector. Mrs Hawker has been a driving force behind ‘The Accessibility Charter’.