Mr Mike Williams, ONZM, of Auckland, for services to governance and the community
Mike Williams is a Director of KiwiRail Holding Ltd and a previous Director of Ontrack. He is a Ritchies Transport Limited board member. He was the Director of Transit New Zealand, the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, the Auckland Regional Transport Authority and Auckland Transport. He was a foundation director of Insight Market Research. He is CEO of the Stellar Trust, a charity which has raised awareness of the dangers of methamphetamine, and the Howard League for Penal Reform, an organisation which advocates for prison reform in New Zealand and provides literacy and numeracy programmes to prisoners to assist with their positive reintegration into communities. Mr Williams served as the President of the New Zealand Labour Party between 1999 and 2009.