Dr John Hood  


Dr John Hood (55)Board of Directors

Non-Executive Director (age 58)

Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in April 2007.

Skills and experience:

Dr Hood was vice chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2004 until September 2009. He was formerly vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland and a member of the Growth and Innovation Advisory Board and the Enterprise Council of the Prime Minister of New Zealand. He has also been a director of a number of New Zealand based companies including the Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd and ASB Bank Limited, a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and was chairman of Tonkin & Taylor Ltd.

External appointments:

Dr Hood is currently non-executive chairman of Matakina Technology Ltd in New Zealand and became president and chief executive officer of the Robertson Foundation in January 2010.

Membership of committees:

  • Audit
  • Sustainability*

* Committee Chairman

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