Professor Edwina Pio, of Auckland, ONZM, for services to ethnic communities
Professor Edwina Pio is New Zealand’s first and only Professor of Diversity at the Auckland University of Technology Business School. She chairs the academic advisory board of Te Kupenga Catholic Theological College. She worked with the Human Rights Commission to develop guidelines for religion in the workplace. She has published extensively on workplace diversity. Her books ‘Sari’, ‘Longing and Belonging’ and ‘Work and Worship’ explore the immigration experience and the impact of minority religions in the workplace. She has worked with the Ministry for Ethnic Communities and the New Zealand Police and has provided pro-bono services to migrants as a registered counsellor. Professor Pio is a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Government’s Response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the 2019 terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques.