Dame Susan Glazebrook and Sir Hugh Rennie, of Wellington, KNZM for services to governance, the law, business and the community
Sir Hugh Rennie has been a leading Queen’s Counsel since 1995 and has worked with major companies and government agencies since the late 1960s. Sir Hugh’s aviation, medical and energy work included chairing the 1998 Inquiry into the Auckland Power Supply Failure. His pro bono and community work has covered the arts, science, and sport. He chaired the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 1999 to 2003, was a trustee of Theatre Arts Charitable Trust from 1997 to 2013, and chaired the Policy Committee of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography from 1991 to 2000. His many years working for the Chatham Islands community included being inaugural Chair of the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust from 1990 to 2001. He was New Zealand Counsel to the Medical Protection Society United Kingdom from 1983 to 2012 and a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Heart Foundation from 1988 to 1994. He was a Director of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants from 2009 until it merged into Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand in 2014, then chairing its New Zealand Regulatory Board from 2015 to 2017. Since 1992 he has been a director of Fletcher Challenge, Bank of New Zealand and Fisher and Paykel Finance, and chaired The Marketplace Co group from 1999 to 2010. Sir Hugh has delivered seminars nationally and internationally and his publications include the 2020 book ‘A Business Revolution – The First Two Decades of National Business Review 1970-1991’.