Edwina Pio

Recipient of a Royal Society medal, Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship and Fulbright alumna, Edwina Pio is New Zealand’s first Professor of Diversity, University Director of Diversity, and elected Councillor on the governing body of the Auckland University of Technology. Her research and doctoral supervisions encompass the intersections of work, ethnicity, indigenous studies, religion, and pedagogy.  Her research is published in leading international journals and media outlets, and she has written over half a dozen books.  Edwina has been appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Group pertaining to the Royal society recommendations on the Christchurch Mosque shootings.